Cristi Puiu's Cannes film Sieranevada scooped major awards at the Gopo awards, the Romanian equivalent of the Oscars, at a ceremony held in Bucharest on Tuesday.
The film, which centers on a family gathered to mark an anniversary of its patriarch's recent death, premiered in the official selection at the Cannes international film festival last year and was later selected as Romania's entry in the best foreign-language Oscar race.
Sieranevada was awarded as the best film, and Puiu collected the best director and the best screenplay awards.
The film's stars Dana Dogaru and Ana Ciontea were named as...
The film, which centers on a family gathered to mark an anniversary of its patriarch's recent death, premiered in the official selection at the Cannes international film festival last year and was later selected as Romania's entry in the best foreign-language Oscar race.
Sieranevada was awarded as the best film, and Puiu collected the best director and the best screenplay awards.
The film's stars Dana Dogaru and Ana Ciontea were named as...
- 3/22/2017
- by Vladimir Kozlov
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Written by Zornitsa Staneva
Following in the wake of Woody Allen’s chirpy Hollywood comedy “Café Society”, Cristi Puiu’s Sieranevada, the Romanian opening of the official competition feels like a product of a wholly different planet and art form. As soon as the opening sequence various cinematic categories can be facilely slapped on “Sieranevada”: a filmmaker’s film, “art house” at its bleakest and most minimalist, a three-hour long cinéma-vérité experiment in a shabby post-communist apartment…
All of the above are certainly applicable and from the outset the film’s premise is to demand the audience’s patience, a lot of it. We will be served a concoction of never-ending naturalistic dialogue set in the kitschy, shabby apartment of a Bucharest grandmother whose husband has recently passed away; a heavy dose of Romanian funerary culture; the lingering ‘afterglow’ of Romania’s communist regime; some intermittent comic-relief references to...
Following in the wake of Woody Allen’s chirpy Hollywood comedy “Café Society”, Cristi Puiu’s Sieranevada, the Romanian opening of the official competition feels like a product of a wholly different planet and art form. As soon as the opening sequence various cinematic categories can be facilely slapped on “Sieranevada”: a filmmaker’s film, “art house” at its bleakest and most minimalist, a three-hour long cinéma-vérité experiment in a shabby post-communist apartment…
All of the above are certainly applicable and from the outset the film’s premise is to demand the audience’s patience, a lot of it. We will be served a concoction of never-ending naturalistic dialogue set in the kitschy, shabby apartment of a Bucharest grandmother whose husband has recently passed away; a heavy dose of Romanian funerary culture; the lingering ‘afterglow’ of Romania’s communist regime; some intermittent comic-relief references to...
- 5/15/2016
- by Ben Vollmer
- SoundOnSight
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