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WOW! - Tales from The Golden Age

Cristian Mungiu, Ioana Uricaru, Hanno Hofer & Razvan Marculesc, Romania 2008, 131 mins

A collection of five wry and amusing urban myths that circulated under Ceausescu’s paranoid regime, self-styled ‘The Golden Age of the Romanian People’. Full of bleak humour, these stories poke fun at the bizarre lengths people had to go to in order to survive – one tense tale tells of a family’s attempt to slaughter a pig in their flat without the neighbours hearing. From the director of 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days, this has a similar feel for the extraordinary just beneath the surface of everyday life. Simply told with well-drawn characters, these welljudged stories have an easy charm and a canny take on what makes people tick.

Romanian with English subtitles