Featured - The most recent cinematic offering from Cristi Puiu, MMXX, is currently in theaters throughout Romania. Garnering recent acclaim from the International
Featured - The most recent film by Cristi Puiu, MMXX, is currently playing in cinemas throughout Romania. Recently lauded by the International Cinéphile Society as
Featured - The latest film by Cristi Puiu, MMXX, is currently in cinemas across Romania. Recently praised by the International Cinéphile Society as "bewildering,
Wake In Fright (aka
Outback) and Nicolas Roeg’s
Walkabout. Though directed by foreigners (Canadian and English, respectively), they were uniquely Australian stories that set the mold for much of what was to come.
And what came was that, by the decade’s end, such homegrown directors as Peter Weir, Bruce Beresford, Gillian Armstrong, George Miller, Fred Schepisi, and Philip Noyce were considered among the world’s leading emergent celluloid talents. While movies from Australia (barring the occasional international production shot there) were seldom seen abroad before 1970, by the 1980s they’d become widely exported and acclaimed.
A couple new features are very much in synch with the templates set by those two original “Australian New Wave” classics, with
âTwo Lottery Ticketsâ Review: Bumbling Friends Win (and Lose) Big
This Romanian comedy takes an unpromising premise and turns it into a humble and humorous journey.
Road trip and buddy comedy: Dragos Bucur, Alexandru Papadopol and Dorian Boguta in Paul Negoescuâs âTwo Lottery Tickets.âCredit.Ana Draghic/Dekanalog
By Kristen Yoonsoo Kim
Two Lottery Tickets
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Six million euros could change most peopleâs lives in significant ways. The down-on-his-luck Romanian mechanic Dinel (Dorian Boguta) could use the money to win his wife back from Italy, where he believes she is having an affair with her boss. With the encouragement of his gambling bud Sile (Dragos Bucur) and a small loan from his conspiracy theorist friend Pompiliu (Alexandru Papadopol), Dinel buys two lottery tickets. He plays the winning numbers and the three decide to split the proce