Romanian film review – What to See in 2019
Happy new year, dear Insiders! Let’s kick off the 2019 column with a list of what we can expect to see this year. So many premieres are scheduled and so many established names are returning with new fare, which is great.
Ioana Moldovan · Journalist
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Happy new year, dear Insiders! Let’s kick off the 2019 column with a list of what we can expect to see this year. So many premieres are scheduled and so many established names are returning with new fare, which is great.
There are a few titles I am very much looking forward to watch myself, so here they are in a purely subjective selection. To start chronologically, there is Marius Olteanu's debut Monștri/Monsters, officially selected for the Berlin International Film Festival (7-17 February). The story of a couple’s breakup should be promising if one is to judge by the director’s previous short films, all solid.
Speaking of the Berlinale, last year’s big winner, Adina Pintilie’s fearless and much-debated Touch Me Not will finally be released theatrically in March and I am counting on it to make quite a splash. The month of March seems to be particularly busy, because Mona Nicoară's feature documentary on poet Nina Cassian, Distanţa dintre mine şi mine/The Distance Between Me and Me, is also scheduled for that period.
The tireless Tudor Giurgiu (director, producer, festival director extraordinaire) will release his latest feature, Parking, in June. Giurgiu’s films (Love Sick, Of Snails and Men, Why Me?) have always been commercially successful and had a story worth telling, socially and historically, so here is very much looking forward to a love story set in Spain.
Cap si pajură/Headsand Tails is the title of Nicolae Constantin Tănase’s new film, apparently also scheduled for 2019. His 2015 debut
