Romanians don't write screenplays they just think of whatever makes them the angriest that day and a plot forms around it
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Panelstory or Birth of a Community 1981
Speaking as an urban planning student of Eastern European origins, having spent my whole life hearing about communist apartment blocks and witnessing its legacies first-hand, Prefab Story was so immersive and... intimate? A depiction of the social side of prefabricated housing in the communist bloc. A satire that says everything it has to say and nothing more— it's perfect.
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Carol 2015
“What use am I to her, to us, if I’m living against my own grain?”
I watched Carol for the fourth time today. It’s one thing to watch it alone, in my room, at night, and another to watch it with my mother.
I sat through Carol with my mother, over a year after I watched it for the first time, over fifteen years after I knew I had to. I was so stressed out to ask her to watch it with…
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Tales from the Golden Age 2009
No film has ever made me more proud of being Romanian. This is my culture, weird and depressing as it is. This is the history of my people. If anyone ever wonders why I am the way I am, this is why.
Also– even 30 years after the fall of the Communist regime, the country still looks the same.
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