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| Beta Cinema | Release Date: July 19, 2019 |
Starring:
Adrian Cioflâncã, Alex Bogdan, Alexandru Dabija, Catalin Anchidin, Claudia Ieremia, Dana Bunescu, Ilinca Belciu, Ioana Iacob, Ion Arcudeanu, Ion Rizea
Summary:
A young artist plans to reconstruct a historical event from 1941, during which the Romanian Army carried out ethnic cleansing on the Eastern Front.
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Jul 25, 2019
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The Playlist
Jul 25, 2019
The film’s title isn’t just referring to the past, but what everyone involved witnesses in their communities everyday. By letting this fester and not confronting it dead on are we not saying we’re fine with being “barbarians’? It’s a credible question the filmmaker leaves you to ponder in private.
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Jul 25, 2019
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Jul 17, 2019
At its core, Barbarians is about the failure of communication. (The subplot about Mariana’s affair is more important than it seems.) This places it into a long tradition of modernist responses to fascism that stretches back to Eugène Ionesco—though one still can’t shake the feeling that Jude is more interested in pointing out obvious ironies than in anything else.
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