LUPU

The situation at home isn’t easy for Lupu: his father is dead and his mother has a new partner. The boy has a hard time accepting this new presence in his life, but he struggles especially in accepting the death of his father: sometimes the memory of him is so vivid that he seems to come back to life. Lupu seeks a glimmer of happiness with Clara, but she is already in other relationships and isn’t interested in him. Lupu finds himself trapped as usual in a network of relationships that lack in reciprocity and expressions of true affection.

“In the beginning the story was about a boy and an old man; then it started to change, I added the father and the girl, and from there on I built the entire movie. We made several versions in the editing phase: our goal was to make the viewers see the film through their own imagination, stimulating them to ask questions about its contradictions. We thought a lot about where we wanted to place the spectator, and in the end we put him right in the middle of all those ambiguous elements.”

REGIA, SCENEGGIATURA
Bogdan Mustaţă
FOTOGRAFIA
Barbu Balasoiu
MONTAGGIO
George Cragg, Stefan Ion Tatu
SCENOGRAFIA
Oana Novicov
INTERPRETI
Mihai Vasilescu, Ada Condeescu, Carmen Ungureanu, Costel Cascaval, Sergiu Nicolaescu
PRODUTTORE
Marcian Lazar
COPRODUZIONE
Neue Road Production