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In the beginning of his career he directed only [[short films]]: ''Venice in September'' (1983), ''Thirty Years of Insomnia'' (1984) and ''Backstage'' (1988). Caranfil made his [[feature film]] debut with ''E Pericoloso Sporgersi'' (1993) and continued with [[road movie]] [[comedy film|comedy]] ''Asfalt tango'' starring [[Charlotte Rampling]] (1996) and with ''Dolce far niente'' (1998). His movie ''[[Filantropica]]'' (2002) was a critical success and attracted lots of popularity for Caranfil. Some consider Nae Caranfil to be the best Romanian director of the 1990s. Nae Caranfil wrote the [[screenplay]] for all his movies and worked on the [[film music|music]] for the first two of them (''E Pericoloso Sporgersi'' and ''Asfalt-tango'').
 
In 2011, Caranfil began production on the English-language feature film ''Closer to the Moon''. An early version of the script entitled ''Alice în Ţara Tovarăşilor'' (''Alice in the Land of Comrades'') won a grant of €576,600 from the National Centre of Cinema in 2007. The story is based on the 1959 bank robbery in Communist Romania for which a group known as the [[Ioanid Gang]] were convicted and sentenced to death. As they awaited execution, the prisoners were forced to film a reenactment of their crime. ''Closer to the Moon'' stars [[Mark Strong]], [[Vera Farmiga]], [[Harry Lloyd]], [[Joe Armstrong (actor)|Joe Armstrong]], [[Christian McKay]], [[Tim Plester]], [[Anton Lesser]] and [[Allan Corduner]]. Filming took place in Bucharest in the autumn of 2011.<ref>{{cite news|author=Blaga, Iulia|url=http://www.filmneweurope.com/news/romania/production-closer-to-the-moon-starts-shooting-in-bucharest|title=Closer to the Moon Starts Shooting in Bucharest|publisher=Film New Europe|date=6 September 2011|accessdate=2011-10-16|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120330195633/http://www.filmneweurope.com/news/romania/production-closer-to-the-moon-starts-shooting-in-Bucharest|archivedate=2012-03-30|deadurl=yes|dfurl-status=dead}}</ref><ref>Sauciuc, Gloria. [http://www.cinemagia.ro/stiri/closer-to-the-moon-de-nae-caranfil-se-filmeaza-din-5-septembrie-18921/ "Closer to the Moon, by Nae Caranfil, is filming from September 5"], ''Cinemagia'' (Romanian), 2 September 2011. Retrieved 2011-10-16.</ref><ref>Ciuverca, Florentina. [http://www.filmreporter.ro/04-10-2011-nae-caranfil-70-din-acest-film-s-a-petrecut-in-realitate-restul-de-75-sunt-basme/ "Nae Caranfil: '70% of this film actually happened, the remaining 75% are fairy tales'"], ''Film Reporter'' (Romanian), 4 October 2011. Retrieved 2011-10-16.</ref> ''[[Closer to the Moon]]'' premiered at the Making Waves: New Romanian Cinema festival at [[Lincoln Center]] on 29 November 2013. ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' called the film "a surprisingly entertaining black comedy."<ref>Scheib, Ronnie. [https://variety.com/2013/film/reviews/closer-to-the-moon-review-1200922266/ "Film Review: ''Closer to the Moon''"], ''Variety'', 6 December 2013. Retrieved 2013-12-11.</ref>
 
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