| CRISTIAN MUNGIU DRAWS A WARNING SIGNAL (8.06.2007) |
| (2007-06-08) |
| Last updated: 2007-06-08 20:02 EET |
The remaining cinemas in Romania are poorly managed and are in a deplorable state. Romanian film director Cristian Mungiu who received the 2007 Palme d’Or for his film ‘4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days’ sounded alarm bells over this problem. He said that it would take political, financial and administrative muscle to solve the crisis. A tellingly ironic episode took place recently at the Transylvania International Film Festival, when Mungiu’s film was screened in a 1000-seat tent, given that the only cinema theatre in Sibiu could only accommodate 250 people.
The film is likely to become the Romanian film with the broadest media coverage in the world, with the rights having been bought on virtually all continents. ‘4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days’ is the stark account a student who has an abortion during Ceausescu’s Communist regime, a period during which abortions were illegal and could send doctors and patients to jail. The film has received rave reviews in the world press and also received the FIPRESCI award, granted by the International Film Critics’ Federation. This week, Romanian president Traian Basescu awarded Cristian Mungiu the National Order of ‘Romanian Star’, at the level of Knight. Basescu also posthumously conferred the National Order for Merit Knight rank to the late film director Cristian Nemescu, winner of the Un Certain Regard Section in Cannes. Nemescu was tragically killed in a car crash last year, aged 27.
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