In 2007 Cristian Mungiu's 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days was awarded the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. It was then promptly ignored outright by the Academy for Foreign Language Oscar consideration, but was at least nominated for a Golden Globe. I try to bring it up as often as I can simply because I think it is a great film, even though it is quite disturbing and something I have no intention of ever watching again.

The main thing that appealed to me was the way Mungiu used the camera and it has me instantly hoping his next film, Tales From The Golden Age is just as good as I have just received word on the new feature as he brings back several of his 4 Months cast members to tell yet another historical story from Romania along with four other Romanian directors — Ioana Uricaru, Hanno Höfer, Razvan Marculescu, Constantin Popescu — as they piece together urban legends circulating in Romania during the 80s.

The film is described as an unconventional personal history of the late communist period in Romania, told through its urban myths from the perspective of ordinary people. Comic, bizarre, surprising, these myths drew on the often surreal events of everyday life under the communist regime. Humor is what kept Romanians alive, and Tales from the Golden Age aims to re-capture that mood, portraying the survival of a nation having to face every day the twisted logic of a dictatorship.

Mungiu wrote the feature which stars Vlad Ivanov, Alex Potocean, Ion Sapdaru, Liliana Mocanu, Tania Popa, Diana Cavaliotti, Radu Iacoban and Teo Corban. Mobra Films produced the feature and I have several small images you can see below and three of them in larger form right here.

Photos from Tales from the Golden Age

Related post categories: First Look : 3 Weeks and 2 Days, 4 Months, Cristian Mungiu, Tales from the Golden Age

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