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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Radu Jude’s earlier film shares Aferim!’s dry, unsparing social observation, deadpan humour, and patient framing, turning an apparently simple situation into a sharp portrait of power and humiliation.
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Why this pick
If Aferim!’s corrosive irony and willingness to expose collective prejudice appealed, this is another fiercely intelligent Radu Jude satire—formally bolder, contemporary, and equally merciless about public morality.
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Why this pick
Its long, observational journey through indifferent institutions has the same bleakly comic accumulation, moral anger, and refusal to soften cruelty with easy sentiment.
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Why this pick
Another meticulously composed period work from Jude, it pairs formal visual beauty with bodily discomfort, mordant wit, and an unromantic view of social hierarchies.
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Why this pick
For Aferim!’s controlled tension and clear-eyed depiction of people trapped by brutal systems, Mungiu offers an equally rigorous, immersive moral ordeal in a very different historical moment.
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01 / THE STORY
The film is set in Wallachia in the early 19th century, when a local policeman, Costandin, is hired by Iordache, a boyar, to find Carfin, a Romani people in Romania slavery in Romania who had run away from the boyar's estate after having an affair with his wife, Sultana.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Carfin Pandolean
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