It might be that the best idea in Lebensdorf (2021), the sophomore feature of director Valentin Hotea (following Roxanne, 2013), is to uproot Mimi Brănescu, an actor whom we’ve become accustomed to seeing trapped in the cramped apartments of the New Romanian Cinema, and to replant him in an eco-commune in Germany.

Ionuț Mareș

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Journalist and film critic. Curator for some film festivals in Romania. At "Films in Frame" publishes interviews with both young and established filmmakers.

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