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Post-Soviet aesthetics in Karlovy Vary

Comments (0) By Ella Taylor Wednesday, Jul 26 2006
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I don’t think we’re in Karlsbad anymore. (Photo courtesy Film Servis Festival Karlovy Vary)

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The highlight of the festival, though, was Romanian director Corneliu Porumboiu’s political satire 12:08 East of Bucharest, which won the Golden Camera Award at Cannes this year. Sixteen years after the fall of the dictator Ceausescu, three residents of a hick town come together on a local television chat show to reminisce about their alleged revolutionary zeal on that fateful day. Uproariously funny and bitingly critical of social hypocrisy before and after Ceausescu, this brilliant movie is easily the best in what, to judge by other regional films at Karlovy Vary, is a burgeoning and fertile effort to come to grips with post-Soviet malaise in Central and Eastern Europe — living proof that when it comes to politics, comedy is the sincerest form of dissidence.

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