Romanian film festival starts today!

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Elena Richard

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Mar 18, 2010, 12:19:55 PM3/18/10

It's finally here and we have some very intriguing films for you again.

Today we open with an interesting French documentary, The New Wave of the Romanian Cinema / La nouvelle vague du cinema
roumain (6:30 pm),

followed by Police, Adjective / Politist, Adjectiv (8:00 pm)

"a gritty detective film with black comic overtones" (Rob Thomas, The Capital Times)

Check out the latest articles in the Daily Cardinal and the Onion's AV Club.

Exploring this weekend’s Romanian Film Festival

By Dan Sullivan

Film Columnist

Today, tomorrow and Saturday the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art will host an event that, despite being an annual occurrence, has a relatively small profile amongst even the film-savviest Madisonians: The Romanian Film Festival. The emergence of the so-called Romanian new wave, a young cinema born nearly 30 years after similar movements popped up throughout eastern Europe, is one of the more curious developments in recent film history. Whether “new wave” is the best name for this movement remains open for debate; the first film screening in the festival is a French documentary, “The New Wave of the Romanian Cinema” (screens 6:30 p.m. Thursday), whose title seems to imply that the movement itself has embraced its contentious moniker.

The battle of the sexes rages on at the Romanian Film Festival

by Mark Riechers March 18, 2010

The shockwaves from the fall of the Iron Curtain still course through Romania's contemporary filmmakers, who absorb them with movies that range from tragic to serio-comic. Not surprisingly, this only helps to shake up the old-fashioned tug-of-war between men and women, not to mention some backward attitudes. This week’s fourth annual Romanian Film Festival (running Thursday through Saturday at the Madison Museum Of Contemporary Art) features 11 films covering everything from dead hookers to learning to drive stick while being mugged. Although the festival doesn’t necessarily intend to focus on the theme of changing gender roles and the conflict that comes with them, the films The A.V. Club watched ahead of time included plenty of male behavior that makes your average drunken jock-brah look like a militant feminist.