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Three Colors: White (1994)

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Family Life (1971)

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Love Eterne, The (1963)

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Seven Winters in Tehran (2023)

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Joyland (2022)

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Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (2022)

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Taxi Driver, A (2017)

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Afire (2023)

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Good Morning (1959)

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Lost and Beautiful (2015)

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Tag / Romania

April 9, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Graduation (2016)

  • Criterion Collection, Mungiu, Cristian
  • 2016, Cristian Mungiu, Romania
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An effortless if restrained effort by Mungiu that compellingly captures the state of Romanian society through one father’s series of moral dilemmas.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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January 24, 2023 by Eternality Tan

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007)

  • Criterion Collection, Mungiu, Cristian
  • 2007, Cristian Mungiu, Romania
  • 6 Comments

A masterwork of post-2000s East European cinema, this is an intense and uncompromising Romanian drama about illegal abortion that draws power from its stark visuals and ultra-long takes.

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Rating: 5 out of 5.

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July 4, 2022January 24, 2023 by Eternality Tan

R.M.N. (2022)

  • Mungiu, Cristian
  • 2022, Cristian Mungiu, Romania
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Mungiu’s somewhat belated take on xenophobia isn’t an all-powerful tale, but it smartly situates prevalent issues as a trickle-down effect of EU migrant policies in collision with chronic small-town racism.    

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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January 22, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Happiest Girl in the World, The (2009)

  • Jude, Radu
  • 2009, Radu Jude, Romania
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Radu Jude’s debut feature takes cinematic tedium to mesmerizingly hilarious levels as he follows a young girl who is obliged to shoot for a commercial after winning a car in a lucky draw.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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October 7, 2021October 7, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Collective (2019)

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  • 2019, Documentary, Romania
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This Oscar-nominated documentary pitting bold investigative journalism against dirty politics reveals how the state could be complicit in the killing of innocent citizens as this eye-opening exposé shows us the shocking depths of corruption in Romania’s beleaguered healthcare system.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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July 23, 2021November 21, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Malmkrog (2020)

  • Puiu, Cristi
  • 2020, Cristi Puiu, Romania, Serbia
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Critics have called this a cine-symposium, and rightly so as Puiu’s latest is an ultra-dense and ultra-slow exercise that sees five individuals debate over their stubborn—and at times arrogant—views on religion, morality and mortality in thought-provoking but dullish fashion. 

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Rating: 3 out of 5.

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June 16, 2021October 24, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Second Game, The (2014)

  • Porumboiu, Corneliu
  • 2014, Corneliu Porumboiu, Documentary, Romania
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Football as cinema, if only barely, as the director and his father talk about the latter’s refereeing of the game, and by extension, Romania’s late ‘80s political history in this uneventful and uncompelling documentary.    

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Rating: 2.5 out of 5.

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June 3, 2021January 24, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Sieranevada (2016)

  • Puiu, Cristi
  • 2016, Cristi Puiu, Romania
  • 3 Comments

This intense and highly-satisfying three-hour chamber piece revolving around the gathering of an extended family in an apartment is a masterclass in the rigours of acting and blocking.

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

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March 23, 2021October 30, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (2021)

  • Jude, Radu
  • 2021, Radu Jude, Romania
  • 6 Comments

A schoolteacher and her circulating sex tape headline Radu Jude’s new sociopolitical experiment—a piercing satire on everything wrong with the world that is as savagely non-PC as it is hilarious.

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

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April 10, 2020October 24, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Uppercase Print (2020)

  • Jude, Radu
  • 2020, Documentary, Radu Jude, Romania
  • 1 Comment

Intercutting archival footage from state-controlled television with Brechtian style enactments, Radu Jude’s indictment of 1980s Communist Romania will test the patience of even the most hardened experimental-arthouse cineaste. 

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Rating: 2.5 out of 5.

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