“We are ridiculous and don’t know it.” When film critics look at the Olympics

25 July, 2024

Cinema and modern sports: two inventions born almost simultaneously, using a vocabulary so similar – movement, spectacle, corpor(e)ality – that they can almost denote one and the same thing.

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Film critic and journalist; writes regularly for Dilema Veche and Scena9. He studied film theory in Grenoble, Paris, Dublin.