You could be forgiven for grimacing at the very notion of “Romanian Mumblecore.” And if Bogdan Theodor Olteanu‘s debut feature were a mixture of the least appealing associations of both terms — some sort of unholy amalgam of the lo-fi, unrefined navel-gazing of mumblecore and the sometimes dour social realism of the Romanian New Wave — it would indeed be a slog. But instead, “Several Conversations About A Very Tall Girl,” which played at the Transilvania International Film Festival and next will show up in Edinburgh, melds the strengths of all these influences to deliver a delightful, insightful sliver of a thing that feels both New Wave-authentic and airily spontaneous.
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- 6/23/2018
- by Jessica Kiang
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