I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians

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It is more tragic if your actions are futile and invisible.

Rosa

Questions over questions. Please get out of it!

Dorin Moldoveanu

It is very hard to accept that only educated people can understand educational art. It seemed that the confirmation bias was so strong in the typical spectators of the show and I don't want to accept it. I hope the director was wrong, as if this was fiction.

OFF_FRAME

Barbarians is a really clever way to look at the disconnect between nearly all previous generations and today's; those who've experienced war and conflict and those who haven't. It also lays out the problems with way history is written (by the victor), shared and immortalised. The only issues I had was with the inane, lazy and sexist commentary from the students which felt jarred and detracted. 3.5 stars

Jason

I for one have been a grateful recipient of persistent cinematic masterpieces from Romania, a country whose geographic coordinates ground it uneasily, such exigencies at least in part the subject of Jude's very great BARBARIANS. We are asked to consider the challenges of a progressive populism in post-truth times, especially as history, even the history we's livin', becomes abstract as soon as we begin to formulate.

josé neves

Indie Lisboa # 15. From an intelligent and valuable filmmaker, an essay weary of its own exposure, with a long final sequence with a determining linguistic banality.

Kevin Matthews

A bit overlong, & some of the conversations are repeated a bit too often throughout, but writer-director Radu Jude has given viewers a thought-provoking comment on the divide between art and history, and how people can struggle to bring the two together. Ioana Iacob is superb in the lead role, but this is a film crystallising ideas that become clearest in the big finale, and those ideas are very much worth your time.

Rodrigo

what is breathtaking about this movie is that it is not only about Romenia history but about post-truth era, trumpism, far-right turn in global politics, an urgent movie about the precarious force of art to resist turbulent times