Out of the Bedroom & Into the Streets: Jude’s Latest a Bitter Drama of Cyclical Misery
Now at the end of a decade in existence, the Romanian New Wave has another veritable name to add to its annals with Radu Jude, whose excellent third feature film, Everybody In Our Family, rounds the festival circuit, and hopefully will enjoy a reputation that rivals the works of Muntean and Mungiu. A day-in-the-life of kitchen sink miserablism, this uncomfortable little domestic drama is an irresistibly well acted venture that pulls you in quick and keeps you enthralled to its final few minutes. With a plot that sounds like it very easily could veer into camp black comedy, Jude’s film keeps a level of dead seriousness that laces those laughs with a discomforting edge.
Marius (Serban Pavlu) is a divorced dentist in his late thirties. He wakes up one morning in the middle of his apartment,...
Now at the end of a decade in existence, the Romanian New Wave has another veritable name to add to its annals with Radu Jude, whose excellent third feature film, Everybody In Our Family, rounds the festival circuit, and hopefully will enjoy a reputation that rivals the works of Muntean and Mungiu. A day-in-the-life of kitchen sink miserablism, this uncomfortable little domestic drama is an irresistibly well acted venture that pulls you in quick and keeps you enthralled to its final few minutes. With a plot that sounds like it very easily could veer into camp black comedy, Jude’s film keeps a level of dead seriousness that laces those laughs with a discomforting edge.
Marius (Serban Pavlu) is a divorced dentist in his late thirties. He wakes up one morning in the middle of his apartment,...
- 11/2/2012
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
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