The white-hot moment of the Romanian new-wave film renaissance is long in the past.
“The Death of Mr.
Lazarescu” came out in 2005, “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days” in 2007.
Other landmarks of Romanian cinema also now go back quite a ways, like “Police, Adjective” (2009), “If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle” (2010), and “Graduation” (2016).
That’s not to say there haven’t been good Romanian films of late — earlier this year, I championed Two Lottery Tickets, a kind of droll Romanian Jim Jarmusch film.
The bitter truth, though, is that over the last decade the profile of international impact and acclaim that Romanian cinema once held has radically diminished.It might jump-start again with the appearance of “Miracle,” one of the best films I’ve seen at the Venice Film Festival.
It’s the third feature written and directed by Bogdan George Apetri, and it shares many of the classic qualities of Romanian cinema.
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