Hooked
Pescuit sportiv
Romania, France
2007
84 Min
Color
1.85:1
Romanian
Synopsis
A Sunday picnic seemed like the best way for Mihai and Sweetie to spend some time together and hopefully reconcile. But a series of odd and unexpected events soon turn this idyllic weekend getaway into a very unpleasant day… –Venice Days
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Adrian Sitaru
Adrian Sitaru is a Romanian director, producer and actor, born in 1971. He is the author of several short films, of which Valuri (Waves, 2007), the most well-known, has received numerous prizes. Notably, he also worked with Costa Gavras in the making of Amen. (2002).
His first feature film, Pescuit sportiv (Hooked), for which, besides being the director, he also wrote the script, has been screened in film festivals from Toronto, Palm Springs, Estoril and in the main competition of the 2009 Premiers Plans Festival in Angers, France.
In 2010, his latest short film, Colivia (The Cage) won the DAAD Short Film Award at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale).
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Letters from Venice - II
By Boyd van Hoeij on September 4, 2008
Above: Barbet Schroeder's Inju - The Beast of the Shadows. In films, a subjective point of view can be something of a mixed blessing. For
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By Michael Guillen on April 29, 2009
Never has a camera been so indecisive about in which body it wishes to reside and which point of view it wishes to adopt. “Indecisive” is perhaps an inexact term here as Sitaru has clearly decided… read review
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