Last year's celebration of the Romanian Centennial offered a context for Romanian cineastes to explore various ideas: such as questioning the meaning of national identity, a reevaluation of the past, various x-rays of the nation reflecting in a variety of films, with examples as diverse as The Free Dacians (Monica Lăzurean Gorgan & Andrei Gorgan, 2018), I do not care if we go down in history as Barbarians (Radu Jude, 2018) or Being Romanian: a Family Journal / Jurnalul familiei –escu (Șerban Georgescu, 2018). Amongst all of these titles, Georgescu's film is by far the most conventional of the bunch, both formally and ideologically – but, it is also the one that has the most direct approach of all, when it comes to its attempt at penetrating the national construct, opting for an uphill path on its journey to devolve our country's complicated history.

Victor Morozov

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

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