Just for the fact that he directed 2006’s stone-cold masterpiece “The Death of Mr. Lazarescu,” director Cristi Puiu will always be fine in my books, even if it means releasing a film as comatose-inducing as the 181-minute murder-mystery “Aurora.”
Read moreNadav Lapid's Scathingly Original “Synonyms" Wins Berlin
I had written this on the Awards Watch forums a few days before Nadav Lapid’s Synonyms” was about to screen at the Berlin Film Festival, where it ended up winning the Golden Bear this past weekend.
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“Hope,” Na’s first film in ten years — his last one being the exemplary “The Wailing” —is a gloriously messy, blood-soaked sci-fi epic that may become a cult classic despite—or because of—its polarizing nature.