• Home
  
  

  ‘Aurora’ Startles, Subtly

  Dennis Harvey
  Sep 15, 2011

  Unhurried, character-driven story demonstrates the filmmaking finesse that’s brought Romanian cinema to the fore. Though it had made an occasional international impression before—notably with a long history of Cannes entries and prize winners—few could have anticipated the splash Romanian cinema would create in the last few years. Or that the attention paid it would bring a number of often long, difficult, obtuse movies out of their usual habitat (the festival circuit) into theaters around the world. The collapse of Communism and execution of Romania's quarter-century dictator Nicolae Ceausescu in 1989 freed the filmmaking industry from strict governmental control and propagandic content. But it took until the middle...

  
• September 15, 2011
  
  

  ‘Aurora’ Startles, Subtly

  Dennis Harvey
  Sep 15, 2011

  Unhurried, character-driven story demonstrates the filmmaking finesse that’s brought Romanian cinema to the fore. Though it had made an occasional international impression before—notably with a long history of Cannes entries and prize winners—few could have anticipated the splash Romanian cinema would create in the last few years. Or that the attention paid it would bring a number of often long, difficult, obtuse movies out of their usual habitat (the festival circuit) into theaters around the world. The collapse of Communism and execution of Romania's quarter-century dictator Nicolae Ceausescu in 1989 freed the filmmaking industry from strict governmental control and propagandic content. But it took until the middle...

  
• Q & A
  
  

  Cristian Mungiu's 24 Hours of "4 Months, 3 Weeks"

  Howard Feinstein/indieWIRE
  Feb 4, 2008

  The Romanian film takes place over 24 hours in a provincial town in 1987 before Ceaucescu was deposed.