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could sell. Nevertheless, one should admit that overlapping the international
market’s expectations and the immediate national impulse of documenting
what used to be censored for the five communist decades is a felicitous
concurrence.
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Badeanu, Adina. “DOCultura. ‘Totusi’ un documentar.” Observator Cultural. 3 March
2008. .
Dargis Manolha. “Friend Indeed Who Doesn’t Judge or Flinch.” New York Times, 25 January
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Dargis Manolha, and A.O. Scott. “In Cannes, a Romanian Takes Home the Fronds.”
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Galt, Rosalind. The New European Cinema. Redrawing the Map. New York: Columbia
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Macdonald Moira. “Hard to Witness, Harder to Forget.” Seattle Times. 8 February 2008
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Riding, Alan. “The Death of Mr. Lazarescu Comes After a Bout of Hypochondria.” New
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1
The Occident, Cristian Mungiu, Romania, 2002; The Rage, Radu Muntean,
Romania, 2002, Romanian; The Stone Cross, Andrei Blaier, Romania, 1993; stuff
and the Dough, Cristi Puiu, Romania, 2001; The Tower of Pisa, Serban Marinescu,
Romania, 2002; The Mirror: The Beginning of the Truth, Sergiu Nicolaescu, Romania,
1993; Nikki and Flo, Lucian Pintilie, Romania, 2003, to mention only the feature
pictures.
2
John Grierson coined the term “documentary” in his review of Robert Flaherty's
film Moana, published in New York Sun, February 8, 1926.
3
Grierson’s diaries, quoted from Wikipedia.org.
4
According to the statistics revealed by the Ministry of Public Health after 1989
500,000 women died in Romanian hospitals from infections caused by improperly
conducted abortions. Obstetricians were forbidden to treat them; they might have
risked their career had they done otherwise.
5
Informants were in charge of following people’s moves and reporting their
declarations of mistrust in the party leaders or any complaints in the system.
6
Mungiu delayed the release of the film because he waited for more than two
weeks for snow in Bucharest. After he shot the scene and edited it he realized that it
is too symbolic and aesthetically healing and opted for the black screen.
7
According to Paul Rotha’s analyses of documentaries, there are four kinds
of documentaries: “naturalistic, ” “newsreel,” “propagandistic,” and “continental
realistic.”
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