Section: Spectrum

MMXX

MMXX

Cristi Puiu
RO/FR, 2023, 160 Min

Everyone is addicted to their phone. Concentration? No chance! Instead of talking about fears, we turn them into numbers while forgetting about those who really need help. Cristi Puiu takes a close look at today's world in a mercilessly straight forward manner but also with a lot of humor.

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Life in times of COVID. Four episodes full of dark humor dissect the isolation and pain of modern life. The pandemic both functions as a metaphor and a memorial for the hidden wounds of our society, which only came to light through the experiences of lockdown and masks. A young therapist welcomes her new patient. But instead of listening to her, she rates her mental suffering between 1 and 5. The list is more important than the suffering. Shortly afterwards, everyone in the family is online. Instead of living with each other, they talk on the phone and chat and hardly notice how the world passes them by. But suddenly a real disaster strikes and an almost hopeless battle begins. With MMXX, Cristi Puiu translate the collective trauma of the pandemic experience into cinema and gives us all the chance to pause. The experiences of that time are still in our bones, in our souls and in our minds.

Text: Joshua Jádi

Drehbuch
Cristi Puiu
Kamera
Silviu Stavilă, Ivan Grincenco
Ton
Christophe Vingtrinier, Alex Dumitru
Schnitt
S. Pereanu, B. Zărnoianu, E. Iaschevici
Ausstattung
Cristi Puiu
Musik
Wishbone Ash, Zoe Puiu
Darsteller
Bianca Cuculici, Otilia Panainte, Laur Bondarenco, Florin Țibre, Roxana Ogrendil, Dragoș Bucur, Dorian Boguță, Adelaida Perjoiu
Produzent
Anca Puiu, Dragoș Bucur, Dorian Boguță
Produktion
BLOCK MEDIA MANAGEMENT & Mandragora
Co-Produktion
Thomas Ordonneau, Sergiu Cumatrenco JR.,
Cristi Puiu

Cristi Puiu - Cristi Puiu is a Romanian director, screenwriter and producer born in Bucharest in 1967. After studying Cinema and Visual Arts in Geneva, he started directing and completed his first feature film in 2001, "Staff and Dough" premiered in Quinzaine des Réalisateurs.

 The Romanian New Wave starting point was marked by Puiu's "The Death of Mr. Lazarescu" feature film which was awarded with Grand Prix at Cannes' Un Certain Regard competition in 2005. In the same section in 2010, the movie "Aurora" was his signature film as an actor, director and screenwriter. "Sieranevada" his 4th feature open the Official Competition in Cannes 2016.

In 2020, at the 70th Edition of Berlinale, the film "Malmkrog" opened the new festival section Encounters, Official Selection competition and won the Best Director prize.

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