Romanian Film Festival
Today I saw the feature for the Romanian Film festival, second day. The feature was called Reenactment, and it was shot in black and white, taking place in 1961 but the movie was released in 1969 then quickly banned.
If you guessed that the movie was about the secret police, a corrupt justice system with gangster officials, and you threw in a character death, you would be correct.
Yet somehow, the movie is so much more that eludes the viewer. It is the small things, like the use of noise, and pennies on the railway, and the secret police giving some kids cigarettes and raspberries.
The attention to detail in Romanian cinema is notorious. Nothing is a coincidence, every move calculated, and every line spoken just so realistically you may as well be watching a documentary.
The summary of the movie is this: Two young guys fight with a waiter, and they are caught by the police, who bring them before the prosecutor, who decides to make a documentary about what alcohol can do to people, so he has the two guys reenact the scenes.
There's some small romance in there too.
If you guessed that the movie was about the secret police, a corrupt justice system with gangster officials, and you threw in a character death, you would be correct.
Yet somehow, the movie is so much more that eludes the viewer. It is the small things, like the use of noise, and pennies on the railway, and the secret police giving some kids cigarettes and raspberries.
The attention to detail in Romanian cinema is notorious. Nothing is a coincidence, every move calculated, and every line spoken just so realistically you may as well be watching a documentary.
The summary of the movie is this: Two young guys fight with a waiter, and they are caught by the police, who bring them before the prosecutor, who decides to make a documentary about what alcohol can do to people, so he has the two guys reenact the scenes.
There's some small romance in there too.