In his relatively short 2005 drama “The Death of Mr. Lăzărescu” (which clocked in at 150 minutes), Romanian director Cristi Puiu invited us to witness an ailing old man’s final hours, using the threat ...

"But we really must continue this discussion." Sovereign Film Distribution has debuted a new trailer for the UK release of Malmkrog arriving on VOD there starting in March. The film originally ...

“Sieranevada,” Cristi Puiu’s nonsensically titled, formally accomplished and richly engrossing new movie, unfolds during a dour family gathering in a cramped apartment in Bucharest, Romania. The date ...

There was nothing at Berlinale quite like Malmkrog. I say this first with the authority of having seen it almost immediately after my train arrived on the first of what would be ten disappointing days ...

What was the starting point for the film? Cristi Puiu: It came from my past, with the dinner that followed the burial of my father. A few years later, in 2012, one of my co-producers asked me if I had ...

“Cinema is not about advertising or propaganda. Cinema is not about beauty or beautiful images. Cinema is about truth.” So stated Romanian director Cristi Puiu, delivering a masterclass at the ...

Cannes Croisette regular Cristi Puiu has wrapped principal photography on his anticipated next film Manor House. It is Puiu’s first film in French and is set in 1900 on the estate of a wealthy ...

“Philosophy bewilders the mind,” rightly states Ingrida (Diana Sakalauskaité) early in the nearly three-and-half hour running time of “Malmkrog,” Romanian director Cristi Puiu’s dense ideological ...