Address: Radu Muntean
Translators: Maria Popistasu, Ilona Brezoianu, Alex Bogdan
Year : 2021
premiere: 26 August 2022
★★★★
Radu Muntean directed ‘Tuesday After Christmas’ in 2010, one of the best films of this new Romanian cinema that emerged almost two decades ago and refuses to disappear. His latest movie ‘Entre valles’ is still in theaters. sharp and disturbing line Always. topic now the role of middle-class citizens who feel satisfied by traveling to miserable areas once a year in their brand new SUV. humane aid.
Three of these characters, two women and one man, are stopped by their vehicles on a muddy road in the middle of the forest. The idea was to help an old man and take him to his destination, but there is no place and the old man is not in his right mind. This almost ‘passolinian’ character, against the artificial needs of some bourgeois those who do their humanitarian aid to make themselves feel good, nothing more.
Film perfect shotDespite the general sense of pressure they convey, they shoot all the shots for breath, and there is no better sentence in the story than when a peasant woman asks a collaborator whether she prefers ground coffee or powdered coffee that goes in a bag. Hero, whom they give, says of course that he prefers the coffee that the old woman gives him.