On Friday, 22 April, at 19:00, the Eforie (Jean Georgescu) Hall will host the 11th Edition of Cineclub FILM, where the feature
Anotimpuri (Seasons) (1964) by
Savel Stiopul will be screened.
Film reviewer
Marilena Ilieşiu, editor with the FILM magazine and author of the books „Povestea poveştii în filmul românesc (1912-2012)” (Storytelling in Romanian Film) (Polirom Publishing House, 2013), and „Mircea Daneliuc – Cele 17 vieţi ale pisicii rupte” (Mircea Daneliuc – 17 Lives of a Broken Cat) (UCIN Publishing House, 2015), will talk about this remarkable film, unfortunately known to little today. Furthermore, the latest issue (1 / 2016) of FILM magazine will be presented.
„Observing the cyclic nature and the symbolism of the seasons, Stiopul articulates in
Seasons four narrative segments, starting with assimilating nature signs with human actions. (...) The third episode, «Arşiţa» (The Heat), is an erotic female fantasy. The two types of heat – hot weather and the heroine's carnal passion – unfold parallel, evolving in independent crescendos. After a domestic cooling ritual, imagistically exploited as a play on shadows, the heroine leaves to find her absentee husband, suspected of an extra-marital affair. The two meet under a big tip lorry, in service at a Socialist factory, and the erotic tension between husband and wife is taken over by the defective, amorphous, metal mass. The carnal love scene is carried out through intermediary – the screws, pistons and blocks of the huge truck are caressed and felt like it were the body of a lover. This scene, maybe the most passionate in the Romanian cinema, transfers eroticism from carnal to mechanical, from anatomic to machinery.” (Marilena Ilieşiu, „Povestea poveştii în filmul românesc”, 2013)
