Uppercase Print

Name: Uppercase Print
Genre: Drama
Released: November 10, 2021
Duration: 128 min
Rating: 80
Cast: Alexandru Potocean, Bogdan Zamfir, Constantin Dogioiu, Doru Catanescu, Ioana Iacob

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Big World Pictures | Release Date: November 10, 2021 | Not Rated

Starring: Alexandru Potocean, Bogdan Zamfir, Constantin Dogioiu, Doru Catanescu, Ioana Iacob, Nicolae Ceausescu, Serban Lazarovici, Serban Pavlu, Silvian Vâlcu

Summary: In 1981, chalk slogans written in uppercase letters started appearing in public spaces in the Romanian city of Botoşani. They demanded freedom, alluded to the democratic developments taking place in Romania’s socialist sister countries or simply called for improvements in the food supply. The culprit was Mugur Călinescu, a teenager who wasIn 1981, chalk slogans written in uppercase letters started appearing in public spaces in the Romanian city of Botoşani. They demanded freedom, alluded to the democratic developments taking place in Romania’s socialist sister countries or simply called for improvements in the food supply. The culprit was Mugur Călinescu, a teenager who was still at school at the time and whose case is documented in the files of the Romanian secret police. Theatre director Gianina Cărbunariu created a documentary play based on this material. Besides presenting the play, Radu Jude also uses archival footage from Romanian TV of the era. Cooking shows alternate with interrogations, transcripts of wiretapped phone calls with recommendations to exercise instead of taking sedatives. This dialectical montage creates an image of a dictatorial surveillance state, drawing on the authorized popular entertainment of the Ceaușescu regime in order to unmask it. [Big World Pictures]… Expand

Director: Radu Jude

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 128 min

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Devika Girish

Nov 11, 2021

The film, a rousing, form-bending new feature by the Romanian auteur Radu Jude, rails at the tyrannical potential of language — particularly when backed by government power — to suffocate people’s freedoms. Read full review

Jonathan Romney

Nov 8, 2021

Working with Carbunariu, Jude offers a spare, visually striking evocation of the methods of Ceausescu’s secret police, the Securitate, in its pursuit and punishment of a young dissident. Read full review

Josh Kupecki

Jan 19, 2022

Jude and Cărbunariu have brought Mugur Călinescu back to life, and woven him into a complex tapestry that reveals a country’s history as a most fragile trompe l’oeil. Read full review

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

Nov 8, 2021

It is a fierce and impassioned denunciation of evil. Read full review

Stephen Dalton

Nov 8, 2021

This may be one of Jude’s minor works, but it delivers a quietly devastating emotional punch. Read full review

William Repass

Nov 8, 2021

The film metatextually insists that we not be taken in by new, more sophisticated methods of obfuscation. Read full review

Jessica Kiang

Nov 8, 2021

In Uppercase Print, the fangs of the past are sharp, but muzzled. Read full review

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