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  • 2021
  • Big World Pictures
  • 2 h 8 m
  • 2021
  • Big World Pictures
  • 2 h 8 m

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 w...

Directed By: Radu Jude

Written By: Gianina Carbunariu, Radu Jude

  • 2021
  • Big World Pictures
  • 2 h 8 m
  • 2021
  • Big World Pictures
  • 2 h 8 m

Uppercase Print

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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 w...

Directed By: Radu Jude

Written By: Gianina Carbunariu, Radu Jude

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90
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.
By Devika Girish FULL REVIEW
90
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.
By Jonathan Romney FULL REVIEW
80
Nov 19, 2021
Shouting in all-caps about unions and shortages of food, Călinescu symbolizes the power of individuals that dare to discern from their own personal trenches, regardless of how insignificant they may seem.
By Carlos Aguilar FULL REVIEW
80
Nov 8, 2021
This may be one of Jude’s minor works, but it delivers a quietly devastating emotional punch.
By Stephen Dalton FULL REVIEW
80
Nov 8, 2021
It is a fierce and impassioned denunciation of evil.
By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW
70
Nov 9, 2021
Jude, with his multiple dimensions of inquiry and imagination, poses philosophical questions about conscience and consciousness, media consumption and social order, that reach far beyond the case and era at hand to challenge the deceptions and delusions of ostensible present-day democracies.
By Richard Brody FULL REVIEW
70
Nov 8, 2021
In Uppercase Print, the fangs of the past are sharp, but muzzled.
By Jessica Kiang FULL REVIEW

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Production Company microFILM, HI Film Productions, Televiziunea Romana (TVR1)
Release Date Nov 10, 2021
Duration 2 h 8 m
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Website https://www.facebook.com/TipograficMajuscul/
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Awards

Gopo Awards, Romania
• 2 Wins & 10 Nominations
Sofia International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Video Librarian
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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