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This weekend the Harvard Film Archive at the Carpenter Center celebrates the world of Romanian film with a two-part series honoring recent Romanian film makers. On Friday, Jacob, directed by Mircea Daneliuc, presents the stroy of a gold miner in Transylvania. Jacob was shown at the New York Film Festival this year and received international acclaim. It will be shown at 7 p.m. and again on Saturday...
...Romanian Film...
...movie Her Alibi Selleck plays, to no surprise, a detective-novelist named Phillip Blackwood. Porizkova plays the Romanian beauty, Nina Ionescu, with whom Selleck falls in love. The twist to the plot comes when Nina is on trial for murder. Selleck, who is intrigued by her physical beauty, believes her to be innocent. He takes her under his wing by acting as her alibi; he uses her story to inspire the long overdue book that he is writing, and before you know it, voila, he falls in love with...
PLATONOV. Romanian director Liviu Ciulei blends farce and great sadness in Chekhov's early drama, at Harvard's American Repertory Theater...
...tortuous plot that is disturbing. Jacob Press, who plays a doctor specializing in lobotomies, delivers his lines like one of his own patients. Press' imitation of a New Orleans drawl is not only bad, it is also insulting. And it bears a great resemblance to that of a Romanian character which Director Laith Zawawi played in Rope last year...