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Sunday, Nov 25, 2007
5:15 PM
Children of the Revolution: Recent Romanian Shorts
Including early works by Cristi Puiu (The Death of Mr. Lăzărescu), Corneliu Porumboiu (12:08 East of Bucharest), and Cătălin Mitulescu (How I Spent the End of the World), this program of short films reveals generations in transition. In Liviu's Dream, by Porumboiu, a young man contemplates his personal connection to Ceausescu's antiabortion decree while earning a few lei by hustling stolen wedding dresses. In Puiu's Cigarettes and Coffee, a successful young man impatiently hears the plaint of his unemployed father; the economy has been reconstructed, but some things never change. Mitulescu's Traffic depicts a new generation of fatherhood, and how the trappings of modern affluence-cars, cell phones, business meetings-impact human connections. Radu Jude's The Tube with a Hat traces an absurdist journey through dismal countryside, the lengths to which a father and son must go for television. In Constantin Popescu's A Lineman's Cabin, an accident interrupts the monotonous routine of two railway watchmen living in an isolated cabin near the Black Sea.
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