Mr. Lazarescu, a 63-year-old man feels sick and calls the ambulance. The film follows him from hospital to hospital as the doctors try to find room...
In post-CeauÈescu Romania, a hapless slacker Ovidiu, seeking a way to finance his own independence, agrees to courier a bag of medical supplies' to Bucharest. Taking two friends along for the ride, their high spirits come to an abrupt end when a sinister red Jeep follows and attempts to force them off the road. A straightforward journey suddenly becomes a life threatening ordeal... Stuff and Dough is the debut feature film from award-winning director Cristi Puiu (The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, Aurora, Sieranevada). Notable for its low-key naturalism, suspense, subtle social commentary, and ethical and moral complexity, this film led and ushered in the miraculous New Romanian Cinema which is now applauded the world over. Second Run present Stuff and Dough from a brand new HD restoration, and the DVD also includes Cristi Puiu's award-winning 2004 short film Cigarettes and Coffee (Un cartuÈ de Kent Èi un pachet de cafea, 2004), and a newly filmed, exclusive interview with director Cristi Puiu.
Mr. Lazarescu, a 63-year-old man feels sick and calls the ambulance. The film follows him from hospital to hospital as the doctors try to find room...
The long awaited follow-up to The Death of Mr Lazarescu premiered at Cannes in May and is the second in his projected series of 6 films dealing with life in Romania. Aurora is the story of the fall of an ordinary man - an imperfect fall without glory. The film follows Viorel for two days as he wanders Bucharest. A recently divorced father of two young daughters, Viorel is an engineer. At work, he has an altercation with one of his co-workers who owes him money and drops in on another employee who hands over two hand-made firing pins, prepared in secret, for a hunting rifle. Viorel wanders around Bucharest. Wherever he is, he feels the same strange nervousness, the same muffled anxiety and the same urge to end the instability that rules his life. He buys a rifle and ammunition, then goes back home to test his weapon...
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