Germany’s Patra Spanou negotiated the deal with distributor Film Buró.
San Sebastian winner Blue Moon, which won the Golden Shell award for best film at this year’s 69th edition, has been secured for distribution in Spain by Film Buró.
German sales outfit Patra Spanou negotiated the deal with Film Buró’s Susana Rizzuti and Luis Angel Bellaba.
Romanian writer-director Alina Grigore’s debut feature is about a dysfunctional family living in a rural mountain region, a toxic environment that the film’s young heroine, played by Iona Chitu, is desperately trying to escape.
Grigore’s Blue Moon world-premiered...
San Sebastian winner Blue Moon, which won the Golden Shell award for best film at this year’s 69th edition, has been secured for distribution in Spain by Film Buró.
German sales outfit Patra Spanou negotiated the deal with Film Buró’s Susana Rizzuti and Luis Angel Bellaba.
Romanian writer-director Alina Grigore’s debut feature is about a dysfunctional family living in a rural mountain region, a toxic environment that the film’s young heroine, played by Iona Chitu, is desperately trying to escape.
Grigore’s Blue Moon world-premiered...
- 10/5/2021
- by Melissa Kasule
- ScreenDaily
An imperfect, attention-grabbing debut feature from Romanian actor-turned-director Alina Grigore, “Blue Moon” is named for a song, though not the one you might expect: a somewhat mordant local lullaby, sung late in proceedings, at a point when any hope of rest has long deserted its frazzled protagonist. Still, it’s impossible to approach the film without that Rodgers & Hart lonely-hearts standard running through your head — which, accidentally or otherwise, turns out to be an effective bit of misdirection. For the more time we spend with 22-year-old Irina (Ioana Chitu), the clearer it becomes that what she’s missing isn’t a love of her own or someone to care for: What she really, really needs is just to be left alone for longer than five minutes at a time.
That’s easier said than done in what turns out to be a . Whenever Irina tries to escape the noise, it...
That’s easier said than done in what turns out to be a . Whenever Irina tries to escape the noise, it...
- 9/30/2021
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
German sales outfit Patra Spanou Film has acquired the international sales rights to “Blue Moon,” the feature debut of Romanian director Alina Grigore, which will world premiere in main competition at September’s San Sebastian Film Festival.
“Blue Moon” follows the psychological journey of a young woman, played by Ioana Chitu, who struggles to receive a higher education and escape her dysfunctional family. An ambiguous sexual experience with an artist will spur her intention to fight the family’s violence.
Pic stars Chitu alongside Mircea Postelnicu, Mircea Silaghi, and Vlad Ivanov, and is produced by Gabi Suciu for InLight Center (“Illegitimate”), in co-production with Atelier de Film, Forest Film, Smart Sound Studios (“Monsters”) and Avanpost. It’s Grigore’s second feature as a writer, after she wrote and starred in Adrian Sitaru’s Berlinale prize winner “Illegitimate.”
“Romanian cinema has been in the focus of the international arthouse film scene for a while,...
“Blue Moon” follows the psychological journey of a young woman, played by Ioana Chitu, who struggles to receive a higher education and escape her dysfunctional family. An ambiguous sexual experience with an artist will spur her intention to fight the family’s violence.
Pic stars Chitu alongside Mircea Postelnicu, Mircea Silaghi, and Vlad Ivanov, and is produced by Gabi Suciu for InLight Center (“Illegitimate”), in co-production with Atelier de Film, Forest Film, Smart Sound Studios (“Monsters”) and Avanpost. It’s Grigore’s second feature as a writer, after she wrote and starred in Adrian Sitaru’s Berlinale prize winner “Illegitimate.”
“Romanian cinema has been in the focus of the international arthouse film scene for a while,...
- 8/3/2021
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
George Dorobanțu likes independent movies and not only that he likes them but also he makes some of these. He started with Elevator – his first feature – that was made in 2008 with a $200 dollar budget. The film's setting was in an… elevator (of course). So we have nothing but a boy, a girl, both stuck on an elevator. This film brought to George Dorobanțu the Best Newcomer award at 2008 Tiff Romanian Days. This year, the Romanian director has another film included in the Tiff Romanian Days section. It’s his second feature, it’s a documentary (although not a classic documentary), and it’s called Bucharestless. The film was shot on miniDV with a $1500 dollar budget. Dorobanțu is the director, the scriptwriter, the cinematographer and also the editor. He worked with Alexandra M. Păun (producer and cinematographer) and with Lex Dumitru (music composer). The producers describe Bucharestless as a city-verite, a...
- 6/7/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
George Dorobanțu likes independent movies and not only that he likes them but also he makes some of these. He started with Elevator – his first feature – that was made in 2008 with a $200 dollar budget. The film's setting was in an… elevator (of course). So we have nothing but a boy, a girl, both stuck on an elevator. This film brought to George Dorobanțu the Best Newcomer award at 2008 Tiff Romanian Days. This year, the Romanian director has another film included in the Tiff Romanian Days section. It’s his second feature, it’s a documentary (although not a classic documentary), and it’s called Bucharestless. The film was shot on miniDV with a $1500 dollar budget. Dorobanțu is the director, the scriptwriter, the cinematographer and also the editor. He worked with Alexandra M. Păun (producer and cinematographer) and with Lex Dumitru (music composer). The producers describe Bucharestless as a city-verite, a...
- 6/7/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
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