Country: Romania, Bulgaria, Sweden, Germany
Year: 2022
Duration: 106'
After a mysterious text message from an unknown number, Doru suddenly leaves his work in Göteborg and returns to his hometown in Romania with a growing load of jealousy on his back. The message claims that his wife is unfaithful and despite the evidence contradicting this he lets his anxiety grow to gigantic proportions and initiates on his own a meticulous investigation.
Biography
film director
Ştefan Constantinescu
(Bucharest, Romania, 1968) is a filmmaker and artist. He works in mulitple mediums, including film, photography, artist books and painting. He has studied classical painting, film and video at the Bucharest Academy of Art and Film and at the Royal Art Academy in Stockholm. In 2009 he represented Romania at the Venice Biennale with the film Troleibuzul 92. In 2012 his short film Family Dinner screened in Semaine de la Critique in Cannes, and in 2013 his short film Six Big Fish premiered in the competition of the Locarno Film Festival. His feature length documentary My Beautiful Dacia (2009) went on to numerous international festivals (IDFA, Jihlava, Montreal, among others) and received the Jury Prize in Documenta Madrid. He’s currently working, alongside Corina Ilea, on the artists’ book Noah’s Ark - An Improbable Space Survival Kit.
FILMOGRAFIA
My Beautiful Dacia (doc, 2010), Middag med familjen (Family Dinner, cm, 2012), 6 stora fiskar (Six Big Fish, cm, 2013), Prologen (Prologue, cm, 2015), Duschen (The Shower, cm, 2016), Om-Câine (Man and Dog, 2022).
Declaration
film director
“This is a film with noir influences and with an investigative structure, that focuses on a couple's drama and the themes of betrayal, failure and alienation. It is a love story, shown through the eyes of Doru, a man in his forties who does not feel at home anywhere and whose actions are governed by fear. Over the course of one week, we accompany Doru through baptism preparations and adultery investigations and we witness his outbursts of jealousy and affection, paranoia and compassion. We're accompanying a man who is facing the painful process of identity dissolution and reconstruction.”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: Ştefan Constantinescu. SCREENPLAY: Andrei Epure, Ștefan Constantinescu, Jörgen Andersson. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Alexandru Solomon. FILM EDITING: Cătălin Cristuțiu. PRODUCTION DESIGN, COSTUME DESIGN: Alma Alexandra Ungureanu. MUSIC: Cristian Lolea. SOUND: Lars Wignell, Gustaf Berger, Alexandru Dumitru. CAST: Ana Ciontea, Bogdan Dumitrache, Cosmina Stratan, Dan Nutu, Liviu Pintileasa, Ofelia Popii, Oxana Moravec, Voica Oltean. PRODUCERS: Ada Solomon, Diana Păroiu. PRODUCTION: microFILM. CO-PRODUCTION: KLAS Film, Doppelganger, Pandora Film.
CONTACT:
The Open reel - Cosimo Santoro cs@theopenreel.com
