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WHEN EVENING FALLS ON BUCHAREST OR METABOLISM

Synopsis

A director asks his actress whether she’s comfortable doing a nude scene. As long as its justified, she says. Don’t worry, he replies. So begins Corneliu Porumboiu’s deliciously witty new film. Shot inside non-descript hotel lobbies, restaurants and apartments – places that lie on the periphery of a movie set, When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism follows Paul, a director of some renown, who is suffering from an imaginary medical condition and a real crisis of faith. He has two weeks left to shoot his latest opus; but is for some unknown reason plagued with doubt. Perhaps it has to do with his actress, with whom he’s having an affair, or the constraints of Chinese cuisine, or Michelangelo Antonioni, or something in between.

Special Features

· The Second Game (2014, 97 minutes) a film by Corneliu Porumboiu
· Theatrical Trailer

Film Reviews

"A dryly funny, enigmatic new work." – The New York Times

"The most original voice in the new Romanian cinema. A rigorously elliptical film about filmmaking (and the power dynamics within the process), set during a movie shoot but only when the cameras aren't rolling." – LA Times

"Porumboiu is a master of absurdist humor." – Filmmaker Magazine

Trailer