Romanian San Sebastian Competitor ‘Blue Moon’ Rides Ripples of Family Dysfunction

Damian Lewis and Guy Pearce are to lead the line of limited drama series A Spy Among Friends.

Tim Dams Imagine making two movies at exactly the same time. That’s exactly what Romanian-born, New York-based director Bogdan George Apetri did while making “Miracle,” which played last week in the feature film competition at the Zurich Film Festival shortly after world premiering at Venice.Filmed in Romania, “Miracle” is the second part of a trilogy of films written and directed by Apetri, and was recently picked up by Memento International.

Let’s get this out of the way out front: Yes, the Romanian film “Bad Luck Banging Or Loony Porn,” winner of the Golden Bear at the 2021 Berlinale, opens with about three and a half minutes of hardcore pornography. Teacher Emilia (Katia Pascariu) and her husband Eugen go at it on digital video, complete with a little light flagellation, porn-informed dirty talk, and unsimulated oral and penetrative intercourse.

Guy Lodge Film CriticAn imperfect, attention-grabbing debut feature from Romanian actor-turned-director Alina Grigore, “Blue Moon” is named for a song, though not the one you might expect: a somewhat mordant local lullaby, sung late in proceedings, at a point when any hope of rest has long deserted its frazzled protagonist.

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Blue Moon (Crai Nou) by Romanian director Alina Grigore won the Golden Shell at the 69th San Sebastian Film Festival whose top awards were swept by female filmmakers and actors.

Guy Lodge Film CriticFemale directors and actors reigned supreme at tonight’s San Sebastian Film Festival awards ceremony, with the Romanian actor-turned-director Alina Grigore taking the Golden Shell for Best Film for her intimate debut feature “Blue Moon.” The film, a raw realist study of a young woman attempting to free herself from an abusive rural household, was an unexpected winner, besting a number of higher-profile auteur films in the festival’s main competition.

Love Island’s Olivia Attwood and her fiancé Bradley Dack have taken to Instagram to show off matching tattoo dedicated to their "first baby", their dog Lola who they rescued from Romania in 2020. In a cute AF holiday post, Olivia and Bradley, who already have matching ink dedicated to their relationship, shared a snap of the small "Lola" tattoos.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentFilms Boutique (“Embrace of the Serpent,””Charlatan”) has closed several key European territories on “Mi Iubita, Mon Amour,” the feature debut of actor-turned-filmmaker Noémie Merlant which is playing at San Sebastian in the Zabaltegi Tabakalera section.“Mi Iubita, Mon Amour” world premiered at Cannes in Special Screenings.

Catherine Zeta-Jones couldn’t be more excited to play Morticia Addams!

Catherine Zeta-Jones couldn't be more excited to play Morticia Addams!The actress told ET's Kevin Frazier and Nischelle Turner while arriving at the 2021 Emmy Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday that she's «looking forward» to taking on the role in Netflix's series.«I'm just about to start shooting in Romania,» she shared.

London. Back in the 1990s a friend planned to launch a chain of nail bars (at that time virtually non-existent here) like those on every street in his native Manhattan.

K.J. Yossman John Malkovich (“The New Pope”) is set to play legendary classical conductor Sergiu Celibidache in a new film titled “The Yellow Tie”, Variety can exclusively reveal.Based on a screenplay by the conductor’s son, Serge Ioan Celebidachi and James Olivier (“Octav”), the biopic will explore Celibidache’s life as one of the world’s most controversial conductors, alternatively considered a genius and a madman by the conventional classical music world.