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Rautaciosul adolescent (1969)
uncanny film for communist times
Upon the story written by Nicolae Breban, the film is using a pseudo- psycho-analytical approach for a personal story of doctor Palaloga(a love story). Unlike the communist movies of the 70ies and 80ies, which were bringing the political system into characters' inner clashes, The Mischievous Adolescent is more in tune with French and Italian movies of that time. Characters say important things, do not wallow around shallow and petty conversation (for big dialogue see also Suta de lei, The Hundred lei). Music is also used brilliantly - an urban, rhythmic music to pace the story up and down. Camera movements and angles, the non- linear editing - just like La capătul liniei, At the end of the train tracks - are creating an urban environment for the urban story.
Mireasa din tren (1980)
A bride that travels by train from time to time...
...is the brightest metaphor for several things, among which, living in communism, working in factories and under the public opinion's eyes and getting married for all the wrong purposes. Plus, no love lasts till forever, right? Mihu is the epitome of the non-conformist young man that does not like the path that the regime had chose for him; he gives up working in the factory and started going around with the circus, doing dangerous wall-rides with his motorcycle. Filimon, his total opposite, studies in the evening to take his exams, works and wears knitted vests over solid shirts. Carolina, a pretty waitress, is Mihu's bride-in-the-train, a game they play that she grew tired of, as the need to be his real bride started to eat her up. So Carolina, after meeting Filimon, makes a bet with Mihu she'll make Filimon ask her in no time. Whose real bride would she be? Fantastic poem in the beginning, the film key.