Aferim! Blu-ray
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Posted June 16, 2016 02:18 AM by Webmaster
U.S. label Big World Pictures has officially announced that it will release on Blu-ray dierctor Radu Jude's film Aferim! (2015), starring Teodor Corban, Mihai Comanoiu, and Toma Cuzin. The release will be available for purchase on June 28.
Aferim! was Romania's Official Entry for the 88th Academy Awards (Best Foreign Language Film). The film also won prestigious the Silver Bear Award for Best Director at the 2015 Berlin International Film Festival, and was an Official Selection at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival.
Pictures. Also included on the AFERIM! Blu-ray and DVD is "THE TUBE WITH A HAT" (2006), Jude's subtle, moving first short film, which won universal acclaim, and took the Grand Jury Prize for Best Short Film at the Sundance Film Festival, and Best Short Film at the San Francisco Film Festival. Synopsis: The only contemporary Romanian film to address the issue of Roma (aka Gypsy) slavery, Aferim! utilizes dark humor to touch upon the long history of anti-Roma prejudice in Central and Eastern Europe.
Eastern Europe, 1835. Two riders cross a barren landscape in the middle of Wallachia. They are the gendarme Costandin and his son. Together they are searching for a gypsy slave who has run away from his nobleman master and is suspected of having an affair with the noble's wife. While the unflappable Costandin comments on every situation with a cheery aphorism, his son takes a more contemplative view of the world. On their odyssey they encounter people of different nationalities and beliefs: Turks and Russians, Christians and Jews, Romanians and Hungarians. Each harbors prejudices against the others that have been passed down from generation to generation. And even when the slave Carfin is found, the adventure is far from over…
AFERIM! Radu Jude's third feature has been aptly compared to films as diverse as The Searchers, The Last Detail and Pulp Fiction (the latter for its rambling, coarse and endlessly entertaining dialogues), but the film is ultimately a moving parable about late-feudal Europe developed from historical documents and songs: its power structures and hierarchies, people's ideas of themselves and others, interaction with minorities and the resulting conflicts. A Balkan Western in black-and-white (shot on 35mm) that brings the cacophony of the times strikingly to life and explores thematic arcs that stretch into the present.
SPECIAL FEATURES:
Aferim! was Romania's Official Entry for the 88th Academy Awards (Best Foreign Language Film). The film also won prestigious the Silver Bear Award for Best Director at the 2015 Berlin International Film Festival, and was an Official Selection at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival.
Pictures. Also included on the AFERIM! Blu-ray and DVD is "THE TUBE WITH A HAT" (2006), Jude's subtle, moving first short film, which won universal acclaim, and took the Grand Jury Prize for Best Short Film at the Sundance Film Festival, and Best Short Film at the San Francisco Film Festival. Synopsis: The only contemporary Romanian film to address the issue of Roma (aka Gypsy) slavery, Aferim! utilizes dark humor to touch upon the long history of anti-Roma prejudice in Central and Eastern Europe.
Eastern Europe, 1835. Two riders cross a barren landscape in the middle of Wallachia. They are the gendarme Costandin and his son. Together they are searching for a gypsy slave who has run away from his nobleman master and is suspected of having an affair with the noble's wife. While the unflappable Costandin comments on every situation with a cheery aphorism, his son takes a more contemplative view of the world. On their odyssey they encounter people of different nationalities and beliefs: Turks and Russians, Christians and Jews, Romanians and Hungarians. Each harbors prejudices against the others that have been passed down from generation to generation. And even when the slave Carfin is found, the adventure is far from over…
AFERIM! Radu Jude's third feature has been aptly compared to films as diverse as The Searchers, The Last Detail and Pulp Fiction (the latter for its rambling, coarse and endlessly entertaining dialogues), but the film is ultimately a moving parable about late-feudal Europe developed from historical documents and songs: its power structures and hierarchies, people's ideas of themselves and others, interaction with minorities and the resulting conflicts. A Balkan Western in black-and-white (shot on 35mm) that brings the cacophony of the times strikingly to life and explores thematic arcs that stretch into the present.
SPECIAL FEATURES:
- Radu Jude's 23-minute short film, "THE TUBE WITH A HAT"-- a bonus on the Blu-ray release -- took home the Grand Jury Prize for Best Short Film at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. The deceptively simple and poignant film concerns a small boy who wakes up one morning and talks his dad into journeying from their rural village into the city to fix their broken television set. "THE TUBE WITH A HAT" won the top short film prize at more than a dozen major film festivals around the world–not to be missed!
