Preceded by the short film Sorcerer'sApprentice, directed by Ion Popescu Gopo (9 mins, Color). There have been greatand fascinating films made on the process of filmmaking; Sequences, directed by Alexandru Tatos,surpasses even Truffaut's Day for Night and Godard's Passion in its treatment of that billowing borderbetween illusion and reality as a film crew at work passes almost unnoticeably from one to the other. Threeseparate episodes (based on three short stories) emerge from the experiences of the film crew. "TheTelephone," in which the loneliness of the protagonist begins to parallel uncomfortably the emotions of thedirector himself, poses in a highly original fashion the ancient chicken-and-egg question of the arts-is artimitating life, or is in fact the opposite true? In "The Prospecting," an insignificant family drama involvinga restaurant manager reveals tensions that extend far beyond the movie set. The third, most remarkableepisode, "Four Slaps," is a Pirandellian excursion into man's relationship to history as two aged extras onthe set of a film dealing with the underground Fascist movement find that they were on opposite sides of theactual struggle. "This is a harsh parable with no heroes," critic Manuela Cernat writes, "just victims."