At thirty-nine, although he has made only one single feature film, Romanian filmmaker Adrian Sitaru is already internationally known. He won the Leopards of Tomorrow section of the 2007 Locarno International Film Festival with his short Waves (Valuri) and for his first feature – Hooked (Pescuit sportiv), he received the Special Jury Award and the Best Actress prize for Ioana Flora and Maria Dinulescu at the 2008 Thessaloniki Film Festival. Now, Adrian Sitaru is preparing his second feature. From Love with Best Intentions tells the story of a 33-year-old man, named Alex, whose mother suffers a stroke. "Although his mother seems ok, Alex becomes more and more irrational, antsy and paranoiac. This happens because, from love, with best intentions, we’re getting ignorant, blind and starting to make mistakes." explains the director. Sitaru continues his collaboration director of photography Adrian Silişteanu and when asked about the visual imprint of the future film he mentioned that,...
- 8/10/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
Boasting its World Premiere at the 2008 Venice International, Romanian director Adrian Sitaru’s first feature Hooked (aka Angling, Picnic and Pescuit sportive)—I’ve never seen a film so unsure of its own title—was well-received (according to Cineuropa) by its Lido crowds. Hooked then had its North American Premiere in Toronto International’s Discovery Program, where it caught the attention of Alan Bacchus at Daily Film Dose who encouraged patience with the film’s “rough amateurish technical exterior” (i.e., a camera that “whips and swishes around with the technical skill on the level of America’s Funniest Home Videos”) in order to reap the film’s “fascinating dialogue.” The capsule for the 2009 Palm Springs International Film Festival (where Hooked won the juried New Voices New Visions award) claims the same: “Hooked‘s naturalistic, handheld visual style complements the psychological complexity of the screenplay.” At Variety, Jay Weissberg begs...
- 4/5/2009
- by Michael Guillen
- Screen Anarchy
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