Cristi Puiu (contemporary Film Directors)
by Monica Filimon /
2017 / English / PDF
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Cristi Puiu's black comedy
Cristi Puiu's black comedyThe Death of Mr. Lazarescu
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.
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.
