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THE NEW ROMANIAN WAVE

Silent Wedding

HORATIU MǍLǍELE
Romania, 2008, 87 minutes, Color, film's website

In a bucolic village in the 1950s, a colorful wedding is silently taking place while the country enters national mourning over Stalin's death. Silent Wedding is inspired by a real-life event from the communist past and proves pure gold for Horaƫiu Mǎlǎele, one of the most popular actors and directors in Romania. The story is infused with contrasts. Black comedy slips into tragedy, magic realism clashes with political pragmatism, and there is the participation of a who's who in old and new Romanian cinema. The most memorable scene, the one evoking the title, must be seen to be believed. Silent Wedding was an audience favorite at the New York Romanian Festival and a hit in Romania and France. —Mihai Chirilov

In Romanian with English subtitles

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