Este titlul unui articol semnat de criticul de film A.O. Scott in editia de azi a New York Times. Articolul vorbeste despre regizorii romani din "noul val" si filmele lor incununate de lauri -- Cristi Puiu si "Moartea domnului Lazarescu", Catalin Mitulescu si "Cum mi-am petrecut sfarsitul lumii", Corneliu Porumboiu cu "A fost sau n-a fost", Cristian Mungiu cu "4 luni, 3 saptamani si 2 zile" si regretatul Cristi Nemescu cu al sau "California Dreamin' (Neterminat)". Conform criticului de film Alex Leo Serban "nu exista "valuri"... doar persoane." Iar Cristi Puiu este si mai transant: "There is not, not, not, not, not a Romanian new wave," he insisted, hammering the point home against the arm of his living-room couch. January 20, 2008
New Wave on the Black Sea By <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/a_o_scott/inde x.html?inline=nyt-per> A. O. SCOTT "HAVE YOU SEEN THE ROMANIAN MOVIE?" This somewhat improbable question began to circulate around the midpoint of the 2005 <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/c/cannes_inter national_film_festival/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier> Cannes Film Festival. For some reason, the critics, journalists and film-industry hangers-on who gather in Cannes each May to gossip and graze rarely refer to the films they see there by their titles, preferring a shorthand of auteur, genre or country of origin ("the <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/v/gus_van_sant/i ndex.html?inline=nyt-per> Gus Van Sant"; "the Chinese documentary"; "that Russian thing"). It's a code that everyone is assumed to know, and in this case there was not much room for confusion. How many Romanian movies could there be? More than most of us would have predicted as it turned out. But for the moment we were happy to have "The Death of Mr. Lazarescu," the second feature by <http://movies.nytimes.com/person/368387/Cristi-Puiu?inline=nyt-per> Cristi Puiu, though given the movie's methods and subject matter there was perhaps something a little perverse in our joy. Its exotic provenance was not the only thing that made Puiu's movie sound like something only a stereotypical film snob could love. More than two and a half hours long, "The Death of Mr. Lazarescu" chronicles the last night in the life of its title character, a flabby 63-year-old Bucharest pensioner with a stomachache and a drinking problem. Filmed in a quasi-documentary style in drab urban locations - a shabby apartment, the inside of an ambulance, a series of fluorescent-bulbed hospital waiting and examination rooms - it follows a narrative arc from morbidity to mortality punctuated by casual, appalling instances of medical malpractice. [...] Cititi intreg articolul: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/magazine/20Romanian-t.html?_r=1 <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/magazine/20Romanian-t.html?_r=1&oref=slog in&ref=magazine&pagewanted=all> &oref=slogin&ref=magazine&pagewanted=all ---------------------------- Vali "Noble blood is an accident of fortune; noble actions are the chief mark of greatness." (Carlo Goldoni) "When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace." (Jimi Hendrix) Aboneaza-te la <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ngo_list: o alternativa moderata (un pic) la [ngolist] Please consider the environment - do you really need to print this email?
