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| MEDIA HEADLINES (29.05.2007) |
| (2007-05-29) |
| Last updated: 2007-05-30 15:20 EET |
“I feel I’m living in a fairy tale’, Romanian director Cristian Mungiu said on Sunday, as he held the first Palme d’Or Award to ever go to a Romanian feature film. His ‘4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days’ has earned him raving reviews in the international press, and more praise will apparently be heaped on the film. ‘The Romanian director was both the critics’ and the jury’s favourite, which rarely happens at Cannes’, Romanian Evenimentul Zilei daily writes.
Described as ‘a shattering testimony of recent European history’, Cristian Mungiu’s film is the drama of a student forced to have an abortion in 1987 Communist Romania, when abortions were prohibited. This is a film on responsibility and stark life choices, the director says, who worked miracles on a meagre budget and quote ‘placed Romania on the cinematographic map’, according to Business Standard.
“Finally, it seems we no longer need large budgets and great stars to tell a story that everyone will listen to”, Mungiu was quoted as saying in daily Gandul. The newspaper recalls that quote ‘years of Communist isolation left Romanian films and arts out of the European artistic world, denying talented people all opportunities. For years on end, following the 1989 revolution, what we called ‘the West’ frowned on us, alternating a mimicked interest and condescension or even reluctance. Things have radically changed lately, however, and the current film director generation has largely caught up and has spectacularly turned a disability into an asset.” Unquote.‘Our hats off to the young Romanian film-makers’ generation that has made us happy at Cannes for 4 years now’, Curentul daily writes.
Under the headline ‘Finally!’, Jurnalul National believes that ‘besides being a social thriller of the Ceausescu age, which focuses on the prohibited abortion issue, the Romanian film has seduced Cannes with its current universal subjects: friendship, love and the right to choose.’ In his award-receiving speech, Cristian Mungiu quipped that he hoped that day would not be the happiest day of his life.
(Corina Cristea)
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