Graduation

Event Date as Display String:

Monday, May 6, 2019, 7:00pm - 9:05pm

Location:

Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge

URL:

https://library.harvard.edu/film/films/2019marmay/romanian.html#graduation

Event Description:

Gazette Classification: Film Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Film
Archive Cost: Ticket prices vary, see website for details Contact
Info: bgravely@fas.harvard.edu Link:
https://library.harvard.edu/film/films/2019marmay/romanian.html#graduation
Having given up his own dreams long ago, middle-aged physician Romeo
Aldea now primarily navigates his relationships with three women: an
estranged wife, a frustrated mistress, and his teenaged daughter
Eliza. It is Eliza's big event the title references; he has spent
years obsessively working toward that day, when she will be free from
the constraints their dead-end province. Yet the day before her
crucial final exams, an unfortunate incident proves enough of a threat
to a positive outcome that he reluctantly resorts to asking a favor of
a friend on the inside, which unravels a series of return favors,
ambiguous threats, bureaucracy, pay-offs and ethical conundrums —
embroiling him in the very corruption he has taught his daughter to
reject. In Mungiu's quickly moving, gripping drama, both father and
daughter, stuck with a limited range of options, have to negotiate the
sticky repercussions of an uneasy compromise — raising larger
questions about the complexity of Romania's present and perhaps,
future.

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Event Start Date as Date Type:

Monday, May 6, 2019 - 19:00 to 21:05

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