On Sunday evening the 22nd edition of the “Black Nights” International Film Festival ended in the capital of Estonia. The event is considered the most important film festival in the north of Europe.
This year, the
Tallinn competition included the participation of one Romanian film,
The Story of a Summer Lover / Povestea unui pierde-vară, directed by
Paul Negoescu. A second recent Romanian production presented
hors-concours, was
“I Do not Care if We Go Down in History as Barbarians / Îmi este indiferent dacă în istorie vom intra ca barbari”, directed by
Radu Jude.
Touch me Not / Nu mă atinge-mă, directed by
Adina Pintilie, the winner of theGolden Bear at this year`s Berlinale edition, had a special screening at the “Black Nights” festival in Tallin.
At this year`s edition of the festival, a special section was organized, dedicated to the countries that celebrate their
Centenary in 2018. Each contry contributed with a representative archive film. The Romanian film that was chosen to be screened at the event was
The Mist is Lifting / Viața nu iartă (1960, directed by
Iulian Mihu and
Manole Marcus). The film was introduced by the film critic
Mihai Fulger.
“The psychological drama
The Mist Is Lifting is a film of the interrogative and elegiac remembering, in the line of the innovations of the French “New Wave”, by means of rehabilitating the traditional flashbacks with historic-philosophical opening. The hero, a young intellectual, deadly wounded on the battle field of the Second World War, gradually evokes his past and his father`s past (until the period before the First World War), trying to answer some fundamental questions, regarding the reason of the war and of the war preparations, in general. (
Bujor T. Râpeanu)
