To fully deconstruct Romanian director Radu Jude’s meta-on-meta “I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians” (the quote marks are part of the title) would require page upon page of single-spaced footnotes, swathes of Hannah Arendt, a deft repackaging of Walter Benjamin’s “Theses on the Philosophy of History,” and a crash course in Romanian anti-Semitism and the nation’s participation in World War II, amid formal nods to Godard, Straub-Huillet, and Marxist critical theory, while martial music plays in the background. Clocking in at an unwieldy 140 minutes, Jude’s extraordinary opus can be overly didactic and unapologetically intellectual at times, but it is also startling —a provocative, sarcastic, and momentous act of interrogation between the past and the present that escalates to an impasse, with the hands of each locked around the neck of the other.
In a military museum, in front of a...
In a military museum, in front of a...
- 7/2/2018
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
The 61st BFI London Film Festival has announced its full program for this year’s festival, featuring a large selection of 242 feature films from both established and emerging talent. This year, the festival will host 29 World Premieres, 8 International Premieres and 34 European Premieres. The 242 features screening at the festival include: 46 documentaries, 6 animations, 14 archive restorations and 16 artists’ moving image features. The festival also includes 128 short films, and 67 countries are represented across short film and features.
As was previously announced, the starry festival, often viewed as a major launchpad for awards contention, will open with Andy Serkis’ much-anticipated true-life directorial debut “Breathe” and close out with Martin McDonagh’s Frances McDormand-starring “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.”
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As was previously announced, the starry festival, often viewed as a major launchpad for awards contention, will open with Andy Serkis’ much-anticipated true-life directorial debut “Breathe” and close out with Martin McDonagh’s Frances McDormand-starring “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.”
Read More:‘Breathe’ Trailer: Andy Serkis’ Directorial Debut Could Bring Andrew Garfield Back to the Oscar Race
Those exciting titles are now joined by a wealth of other major contenders, including “Call Me By Your Name,...
- 8/31/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
There are currently few more unpredictable careers in European cinema than that of Romania's Radu Jude, who takes a quietly stunning segue into non-fiction territory with his fifth feature-length work, The Dead Nation (Tara Moarta). An essayistic juxtaposition of historical materials from Jude's native land during the turbulent and bloody period from 1937 to 1946, it premiered at home in June before bowing internationally in the Signs of Life sidebar at the Locarno Film Festival. Dealing in an intelligent and original manner with anti-semitism and nationalistic propaganda in the context of "ordinary" folks' lives, it deserves wide exposure at documentary-oriented festivals and...
- 8/9/2017
- by Neil Young
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A few years after the beginning of what has been labeled the "New Romanian Cinema" the aesthetic and moral agenda of filmmakers working under this banner threatened to become a mere cliché. Too often corruption was filmed with static long shots, too many colors vanished from the images and too much emphasis was placed on the same actors acting in similar roles. The director Radu Jude, who worked as an assistant for Cristi Puiu on the movement's seminal The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005), made some strong short films like Shadow of a Cloud (2013), none of which insinuated that he would be the one taking the (not only social) realism of Cristi Puiu, Corneliu Porumboiu, Cristian Mungiu and friends to a new level. His latest documentary The Dead Nation shows a filmmaker who has discovered a special way of looking at and behind images. That alone does not qualify for a different approach in Romanian cinema,...
- 7/13/2017
- MUBI
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