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Corneliu Porumboiu to Be Special Guest at Visions du Réel: His Films ‘Cast an Offbeat, Critical Eye on the Changes to Romanian Society’
Romanian filmmaker Corneliu Porumboiu will be the special guest at the 56th edition of documentary festival Visions du Réel.
“Imbued with dark humor, Corneliu Porumboiu’s films play with the absurdity integral to Romanian society, which threw off the yoke of communism with the fall of Nicolae Ceausescu and the revolution of 1989, instantly supplanting it with unbridled capitalism,” the festival said in a statement. His feature films, which include “Police, Adjective” (2009) and “The Treasure” (2015), were also praised by critics and earned awards at Cannes, consolidating his position as one of the greats of new Romanian cinema – alongside Cristi Puiu, Lucian Pintilie, Radu Jude, Andrei Ujica and Cristian Mungiu. Through dialogues infused with deadpan humor, and a discreet yet rigorous aesthetic which uses carefully composed frames and long takes, he crafts a meticulous observation of characters perplexed as they struggle to both understand a deliberately opaque reality and try to gain some sort of fulfilment from it,” the festival said.
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