Join us for a live Zoom Q&A with film critic Monica Filimon, author of "Cristi Puiu: Ineffable Experiences of the Profane World", Otilia Baraboi (ARCS ED and manager of the Romanian Film Festival Seattle), and Ileana Marin (ARCS Chair of the Board).
Watch the film any time Nov. 13–22. Reserve your ticket to Malmkrog at: [ Ссылка ]
About Monica Filimon:
Monica Filimon was awarded a PhD in Comparative Literature by Rutgers University. She is Associate Professor of English at Kingsborough Community College, CUNY. She has published articles on French, German, and Romanian films. Her research focuses on the New Romanian Cinema, its sources, evolution, and major representatives. Her first book Cristi Puiu: Ineffable Experiences of the Profane World was published by the University of Illinois Press in February 2017. She is currently working on a second book tentatively titled Corneliu Porumboiu: Notes on the Absurd.
About the Film:
Cristi Puiu’s most recent film is a three-in-one project: it is an adaptation of Vladimir Solovyov’s Three Conversations, a period drama beautifully recreating the turn of the twentieth century, and a philosophical symposium. Divided in 6 parts—one for each protagonist—this study of the well-mannered, yet intellectually fierce and, at times, condescending, theoretical debates, present a “slice of life” that froze in its eternal futility. Only years before WWI, in an aristocratic manor somewhere in Transylvania, the wealthy businessman Edouard, the landowner Nikolai, the young and naïve Olga, the mature and ironic Madeleine, Ingrida—the wife of a Russian general—and the butler Istvan exchange ideas on war and peace, good and evil, religion, identity, and politics. Malmkrog is a grand feast for the eye as it is for the mind: the abundance of visual details is matched by the dialogue packed with hard concepts. Winner of the Encounters Award for the Best Director at Berlin Film Festival, Cristi Puiu declared that his film is “prophetic.”
****All screenings in Romanian Film Festival in Seattle 2020 include a live discussion or filmmaker Q&A, available with purchase of admission to the associated film. Talks take place over Zoom, and will be automatically recorded and added to the end of the film playlist on Northwest Film Forum's Eventive virtual cinema for viewing throughout the fest. (Please note: all festival programs but the opening and closing night mixers are available only to viewers in the U.S.) ***
To buy tickets for this or other programs in the festival, visit the Romanian Film Festival in Seattle Eventive page, hosted by Northwest Film Forum:
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