A Slight Unease About Capitalism: Radu Jude’s „The Happiest Girl in the World” and the New Romanian Cinema

22 mai 2022 · de Andrei Gorzo | în Critica de film, English, Film culture, Istoria filmului, Noul Cinema Românesc, Regizori români | etichetat New Romanian Cinema, NRC, Radu Jude, The Happiest Girl in the World, Transilvania, Veronica Lazăr

This new article co-authored with Veronica Lazăr – the second in a series built around the films of Radu Jude – discusses the aesthetics and the politics of the so-called New Romanian Cinema (a major post-2005 sensation on the international art-cinema circuit), succintly assessing its novelty in both a national and an international cinematic context. […]

The New Romanian Cinema in 10 sequence shots

7 noiembrie 2017 · de Andrei Gorzo | în English, Fără categorie, Noul Cinema Românesc, Regizori români | etichetat 12:08 East of Bucharest, 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days, Abbas Kiarostami, Aferim!, Alexandru Baciu, Alexandru Tatos, André Bazin, Aurora, Berlin Film Festival, Beyond the Hills, Bucharest Art Institute, Cannes Film Festival, Child's Pose, cinéma vérité, Corneliu Porumboiu, Cristi Puiu, Cristian Mungiu, Călin Peter Netzer, Dardenne, Decree 770, direct cinema, documentarist factography, Dogme 95, Frederick Wiseman, Golden Bear, Graduation, Haute École d’art et de design of Geneva, Ioan Fiscuteanu, Iosif Demian, Italian neorealism, Ivana Mladenovic, John Cassavetes, kitchen-sink aesthetics, Lars von Trier, long takes, Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Lucian Pintilie, Maren Ade, Mircea Daneliuc, Monica Filimon, New Romanian Cinema, Nicolae Ceaușescu, Niki and Flo, observational documentary, Oleg Mutu, Palme d'Or, Police Adjective, Radu Jude, Radu Muntean, Raymond Depardon, real time, Romanian communism, Romanian new wave, Rosetta, Răzvan Rădulescu, sequence shots, social realism, Soldiers: Story from Ferentari, Stuff and Dough, The Celebration, The Death of Mr. Lăzărescu, The Happiest Girl in the World, The Idiots, The Paper Will Be Blue, Thomas Vinterberg, Toni Erdmann, When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism

This is based on notes for a public talk given at Stanford University’s Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies (CREEES), where I am a Fulbright visiting scholar until the end of January 2018. The talk was given in November 2017 at the generous invitation of CREEES Faculty Director Pavle Levi (Associate Professor […]

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A Slight Unease About Capitalism: Radu Jude’s „The Happiest Girl in the World” and the New Romanian Cinema