Cristi Puiu
By: Monica Filimon
Series: Contemporary film directors; Contemporary film directors
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9780252040764; 9780252082276
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Description: "Cristi Puiu's black comedy The Death of Mr. Lazarescu announced the arrival of the New Romanian Cinema as a force on the film world stage. As critics and festival audiences embraced the new movement, Puiu emerged as its lodestar and critical voice. Monica Filimon explores the works of an artist dedicated to truth not as an abstract concept, but as the ephemeral revelation of the fuller, ungraspable world beyond the screen. Puiu's innovative use of the handheld camera as an observer and his reliance on austere, restricted narration highlight the very limits of human understanding, guiding the viewer's intellectual and emotional sensibilities to the reality that has been left unfilmed. Filimon examines the director's ethics of epiphany not only in relation to the collective and personal histories that have triggered it, but also in dialogue with the films, texts, and filmmakers that have shaped it" -- From the publisher.
Notes: Filmography: pages [151]-153.

Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
Table of contents: title: Ineffable experiences of the profane world; title: The ineffable and the profane; title: Au revoir, les communistes?; title: Theater of memory: The retirement home; title: The road not taken: Wtuff and dough; title: Fathers and sons: Cigarettes and coffee; title: Regarding the death of others: The death of Mr. Lazarescu; title: Author! author! Aurora; title: Masks off! three exercises of interpretation; title: What's in a name? "Das spektrum Europas"; title: Father is gone: Sieranevada; title: Interview with Cristi Puiu.