Tonight the Together Again section is showing Aferim! – the latest film by Romanian director Radu Jude, which earned him a Silver Bear for best director at this year’s Berlin Film Festival. The plot of the current Romanian Oscar candidate is set in 1835 Romania and follows the local policeman Costanding and his son Ionita chasing the Roma Carfin, a runaway slave accused of having an affair with his master’s wife. The chase turns into a real adventure. Father and son meet people of different nationalities and religions. Action scenes take turns with surreal dialogues, and Jude masterfully inserts the analysis of political and religious 19th century eastern European landscape, questioning in fact what went wrong in the histories of small eastern European nations. Aferim! is scheduled for 10pm, Tuškanac cinema.
Day four of The Great 5 at Tuškanac features the French film My Golden Days by Arnaud Desplechin. My Golden Days is a sort of prequel to Desplechin’s acclaimed film My Sex Life (1996), but functions separately, proven by the SACD award which he earned in Cannes. Upon returning to Paris from Tajikistan, anthropology professor Paul Dédalus, played by magnificent Mathieu Amalric, is remembering the key moment of his past: his childhood in Roubaix, his mother’s outbursts of madness and his father’s alienation and depression. He also remembers the exciting trip to USSR. But most importantly, he remembers the love affair with the stunning and rude Esther.