Gulea has done some changes to the original text and while they are not groundbreaking, they add more subtlety and actuality to Lungu's story. Emilia's memories are triggered by a conversation with her daughter who lives in Canada and has been building a successful life in a thoroughly capitalist country. Narrated in the first person by its protagonist, a pensioner whose glory days were happening before 1989, the apparently benign stories of her memories denote the inhumanity of an oppressive regime. Take the newest Romanian entry, for example: Sunt o babă comunistă is no less than a literary adaptation directed by no other than Stere Gulea, one of the most interesting directors this country has produced.ĭan Lungu's 2007 hit novel Sunt o babă comunistă!/I'm a Communist Biddy! is a pleasant and often amusing criticism of communist nostalgia. If there's one good thing about the end of summer it's that more grown-up films start hitting the cinemas.Īnd there's no moment to soon for that.
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