All articles by Dan Fainaru – Page 49
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Queenie In Love
Dir: Amos Kollek. US-France. 2001. 98mins.The closing event at Cannes' Directors' Fortnight, Amos Kollek's new romantic comedy, is a sequel of sorts to his 2000 competition entry, Fast Food, Fast Women. The novelty of his approach may have worn off a bit and the structure may seem at times even ...
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Stuff And Dough (Marfa Si Banii)
Dir. Cristi Puiu. Romania. 2001. 90mins.Cristi Puiu's feature debut, made on what appears to be a non-existent budget, takes a close look at the underbelly of Romanian everyday life and comes up with a strangely compelling statement that goes way beyond its apparently insouciant approach. A road movie following, for ...
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Sobibor
Dir. Claude Lanzmann, France 2001, 95 mins.A companion piece for his celebrated 1985 masterpiece Shoah, this new documentary combines material shot in 1979 but never incorporated in Claude Lanzmann's major opus, with some additional footage taken in Poland recently. Dealing with the uprising that took place at the date and ...
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Slogans
Dir. Gjergj Xhuvani. France-Albania 2001. 90 mins.The last of the Balkan countries to rid itself of communist bliss, Albania has very good reasons to celebrate its new-found freedom of expression, as it is does here with this satire on enforced political indoctrination. Verging somewhere between realism of the kind that ...