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Format: VHS
Aug 1994
Not Rated
Recording Mode: (unknown)
105 min. |
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Movie Description
This vitriolic comedy, set during the crumbling of Romanian dictator Ceaucescu's horrific regime, follows a wild and aimless woman to the countryside, where she hopes to put her dead father's ashes -- and her internal chaos -- to rest. She takes up with a mouthy, iconoclastic doctor; together they, and the country, step shakily into a new era.
Synopsis
It's 1989, in Rumania, just before the fall of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, and the privileged Nela is about to learn the hard truth about her family, her government and her life. Nela has always adored her father, a political hardliner, but after his death she gradually discovers that he wasn't the hero she believed him to be.
But even if she's lost her rosy vision of the past, she's about to meet someone who just might change her view of future...
Film Notes
Produced by the Cinema Creation Studios of the Romanian Cultural Ministry (Romania) and Parnasse Production (France). Co-produced by Scarabee Films.
The film was shown at the 1992 New York Film Festival.
The director, Lucian Pintilie, lived in political exile for nearly 20 years.
"The Oak" is part of New Yorker's "International Cinema" collection. Their video edition features enhanced yellow subtitles.
Copyright 1992 Parnasse Production.
Industry Reviews
"...Wildly grotesque, shocking, and sometimes very funny....The two central roles are exceptionally well played by [Morgenstern and Vasilescu]..."
Canby
"...A wild piece of end-of-the-world raucousness....Impressive..."
Film Comment - Robert Horton (11/01/1992)
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