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California Dreamin' (Endless)

California Dreamin' (Nesfârşit)

Romania

2007

155 Min
Color
2.35:1
English, Italian, Spanish, Romanian
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DIR Cristian Nemescu

EXEC Dan Badea, Iuliana Tarnovetchi

PROD Andrei Boncea

SCR Cristian Nemescu, Catherine Linstrum, Tudor Voican

DP Liviu Marghidan

CAST Armand Assante, Jamie Elman, Răzvan Vasilescu, Maria Dinulescu, Alexandru Margineanu, Ion Sapdaru, Alexandru Dragoi, Sabina Branduse, Gabriel Spahiu, Radu Gabriel, Marco Assante, Bart Sidles

ED Cătălin Cristuţiu

PROD DES Ioana Corciovs

SOUND Andrei Toncu

Cannes (Un Certain Regard): Un Certain Regard Award, London (Cinema Europa): Satyajit Ray Award, Toronto (Contemporary World Cinema), Melbourne (Romanian Wave), Karlovy Vary (East of the West)

Synopsis

It is May 1999; a NATO military train under the command of American Captain Jones is journeying across Romania. The transport is heading for the Serbian border where radars are to be installed to monitor the Serb-Kosovan conflict. The resolute and upright Jones, however, comes up against an invincible obstacle in the shape of the crafty and slightly mafia-esque Doiaru, the railway chief of a secluded train station who makes use of the administrative chaos to have the transport stopped and shunted onto a siding. His behaviour, among other things, reflects his attempts to cure himself of a trauma from his childhood; for the villagers, however, the Americans’ enforced stopover provides an opportunity for each of them to think of ways to make the most of the given situation. The slow tempo of the narration allows for a detailed exposé of the circumstances, where faithful psychological observations are cleverly combined with ironic abbreviation. The result is an eloquent tragicomedy with incisive critical reflection on both the intimate and social level, in a story which doubles as a universally articulate parable. –KVIFF

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Cristian Nemescu

Cristian Nemescu (March 31, 1979 — August 24, 2006) was a Romanian film director.

Nemescu was born in Bucharest. He graduated from the Academy for Theater and Film in 2003. During his final year in the academy he made a short film, Story From The Third Block Entrance, that received awards at the NYU International Student Film Festival and the Premiers Plans in Angers, France. The European Academy Awards nominated it as “best short film” that year.

Nemescu’s Marilena from P7, which he wrote and directed, entered in the 2006 Cannes competition.

Nemescu’s last film was California Dreamin’ (Endless), starring Armand Assante. He finished filming in July and was in post-production at the time of his death. The movie was awarded the Un Certain Regard prize at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival.

Nemescu was killed in a car crash in Bucharest that also killed Romanian-born sound engineer Andrei Toncu. Nemescu and Toncu were riding in a taxi that was struck on Eroilor Bridge… read more

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