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Film director
Ana Lungu
Screenplay: Ana Lungu
Producer: Anca Puiu
Image: Silviu Stavilă
Editing: Dana Bunescu
Sound: Vlad Voinescu, Filip Muresan
Cast: Elena Popa, Emilian Oprea, Andrei Enache, Iris Spiridon, Radu Iacoban, Dan Lungu, István Téglás, Ioan Paul, Anca Puiu, Veronica Grünau
Synopsis
Cristiana is a 30-year-old woman, brought up in a “proper” family. Her time is split between writing for her PhD thesis, conversations with best friends Alex and Michelle, and occasional, but eagerly awaited rendezvous with Dan, a married man with whom she is romantically involved. After her parents move out of the family apartment, Cristiana decides to buy a dog.
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A Romanian movie that explores in a very delicate manner the late coming of age of a girl left for too long under her parents’ protection. Cristiana seems a lost person who is seeking to define her own views and principles, trying to find her identity while, at the same time, being dependent financially on her parents.
The fight for her own freedom seems to focus, at a certain moment, on the decision to buy a dog as Cristiana has always wanted a dog ever since she was a child. Surprisingly enough, her parents still have the authority to forbid that.
AWARDS
- Rotterdam International Film Festival
Germany, 2015
- Best Film (Ana Lungu) and Audience Award
Bucharest International Film Festival – Romania, 2015
- Best Film
Crossing Europe – Linz, Austria, 2015
CRITICS REVIEW:
„The Self-portrait…” seemed a feminine version of Paul Negoescu’s 2012 debut in feature „A month in Thailand”. While, at the time, I was writing about Negoescu’s movie that it was «an X-ray of regrets, indecision and mind changing», the Self-portrait explores almost the same area: it is an X-ray of unfulfilment, hesitation but also of rebellion.”
„Why do you think in Romanian oral sex represents an expletive?”
„Objectively speaking, things are relative.”
„So, when you buy a dog, you have to do some extensive research beforehand.”
„You tend to waste time with crap and ignore the important things.”
„ I just wanted to ask you to stop calling me. This time I had the guts to tell you this, but I’m not sure I could completely ignore your calls, so it will help if you won’t call at all.”
- ‘Self-Portrait of a Dutiful Daughter’ Movie Review – is a rare feminine entry in the Romanian New Wave - www.popoptiq.com
- Self-Portrait of a Dutiful Daughter - review - www.filmexplorer.ch
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