Chichester Cinema at New Park
4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days
4 Luni, 3 Săptămīni şi 2 Zile
CHICHESTER INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
And the Winner for Best Foreign Film is
A selection of the official 2007 Oscar submissions for Best Foreign Film:
The Romanian Submission
Screen realism rarely delivers such a vivid image of a country and a time as this excruciatingly tense drama, the unequivocally deserved Palme d'Or winner at Cannes this year, about two young women living in an all-female dorm in 1980s Romania.
The story takes place over one long night. Vague Gabita is pregnant and wants an illegal termination, but she has been dilatory about arrangements with the abortionist. When her staunch friend and room mate Otilia tries to straighten things out she is made to pay her own price to make sure it happens. An extraordinary odyssey of desperation and terror ensues, in the grim environment of Soviet officiousness.
Director Cristian Mungiu's superb art-house nail-biter is convincing in every way, especially in the piercing performance of Anamaria Marinca as Otilia, and continues to reflect the emerging importance of Romanian Cinema. (Subtitles)
(Tickets £4.50)
Romania · 2007 · Cristian Mungiu · 113min
