I don’t know how you guys are handling the quarantine, but I personally am binging on TV series and livestreams of plays and oh, well, everything else that I’ve waved away with a „Maybe later, when I’ve got the time!”. And even though I’m not a big fan of biopics, the Fosse/Verdon (2019) miniseries was on my list ever since it came out. I like musicals, I like Cabaret and Chicago, but somehow, I always managed to (unconsciously) avoid getting familiar with Bob Fosse. I felt that there is something unpleasant in the kinds of images he constructs by sexualizing women, and, generally, even though many of his works are female-centric, he wasn’t at all convincing, to me. Well, things couldn’t have worked out better for me in the case of this miniseries. 

Alex Mircioi

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Film and theatre critic, sometimes dabbles in theatre-making. Has written and edited texts for Film Menu and Acoperișul de Sticlă, and collaborated with a number of other cultural publications like AperiTIFF, Scena9, All About Romanian Cinema and Film. Desperately in love with female filmmakers and writers, could always go for a queer coming-of-age.

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