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The intro suggests a boring academic exercise, positing the first half as a “conversation” with a 1981 Romanian film called. Surprisingly, in a world where we’re used to the cliché of visual artists providing a “response” and critics engaging in a “dialogue” with other people’s work, Jude’s filmactually what he says it is, using a 1981 film by Lucian Bratu as its jumping-off point.
The younger Angela’s barely concealed anger about her work situation, and her not-at-all-concealed thoughts about the world and local politics, keep the first two hours on the boil, and the camera’s detached distance suggests this might build to be a kind of a sister piece to Cristi Puiu’s sardonic observational drama. But after that, Jude’s film unexpectedly jumps the rails when one of the subjects that Angela has scouted starts to film his testimony.
These final 40 minutes , though interesting and engaging, thus take us to a place we weren’t quite expecting: Although bathos is very much a feature of Romanian New Wave, given Angela’s attitude and her principles, her interactions with her paymasters’ visiting Austrian client don’t pay off in a particularly satisfying way.
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