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...Ceausescu regime. The burdens of Soviet-style dictatorship have imposed a gray pall on the country, putting most of the citizenry in a perpetually sour mood. The black market, for shampoo and Kent cigarettes, is on each street corner, in every college dormitory. That's where we meet Otilia (Annamaria Marinca), a smart, illusionless student, and her pretty, mopey roommate Gabita (Laura Vasiliu). Gabita is despondent for a reason: she's pregnant and is about to try to get, with Otilia's help, an abortion - illegal at the time in Romania...
...OTILIA E. HUSU Phoenix, Ariz...
Working full-time as a cultural executive, Composer Chávez at 49 has had little time to turn out any more music like his fine, cactus-flavored Indian Symphony or his Antigone Symphony. So now, every fourth week, he skips town with his wife, Pianist Otilia Ortiz, to one of the several places about the country where they have pianos cached, to work undisturbed. By fall he wants to finish a violin concerto, get on with his third symphony. Growls Chávez: "Leisure. I need leisure, as a banker needs leisure to run his business...