WHEN EVENING FALLS ON BUCHAREST OR METABOLISM
2014 Films
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1h 25m
It’s the middle of a film shoot and Paul, the director, is having an affair with Alina, an actress playing a supporting role. With Alina’s last day on set imminent, Paul decides to rewrite the script in order to shoot a nude scene with her. But tomorrow is always another day...
Direction: Corneliu Porumboiu
Script: Corneliu Porumboiu
Production: Marcela Ursu, Esther Devos
Cinematography: Tudor Mircea
Editing: Dana Bunescu
Production Design: Mihaela Poenaru
Costume Design: Monica Florescu
Sound: Alex Dragomir, Sebastian Zsemlye
Original Score: Maria Raducanu
Cast: Diana Avramut, Bogdan Dumitrache, Mihaela Sirbu, Alexandru Papadopol
Original Title: CAND SE LASA SEARA PESTE BUCURESTI SAU METABOLISM
Original Language: Romanian
Subtitles: English, French
Film Production Countries: Romania, France
Biography of the Director/s
Corneliu Porumboiu was born in 1975, in Vaslui, Romania. He studied Film Directing at the National University of Drama and Film, Bucharest. His first notable short film – A Trip to the City (2003) – received the Second Prize at Cinéfondation, Cannes and the Best Short Movie Prize at Cinema Mediteranéen Film Festival, Montpellier. The medium length feature Liviu’s Dream (2003) won The Prize for the Best Romanian Movie at TIFF (2004) and was selected in the official competition at Telluride Film Festival in the Great Expectations section.
In 2005 Corneliu Porumboiu enters the residency program Cinéfondation at Cannes. In 2006 he makes his first feature – 12:08 East of Bucharest – which is selected in the Quinzaine des Realisateurs and wins the Camera d’Or for debut and the Label Europe, the film distributors’ award. The film took more than 20 awards in festivals all over the world and was distributed in more than 30 countries.
Police, Adjective is the latest film written and directed by Corneliu Porumboiu. The film won the FIPRESCI Prize and the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, where it has competed in the "Un Certain Regard" section. It was sold to more than 16 territories all over the world.
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