by pereulok
Sun Jun 8th, 2008 at 06:13:03 AM EST
Hey, I´d like to get some help from you to try to do a movie listing.
I watched a few day ago a Romanian movie I liked a lot, California Deamin' (Nesfarsit), by Cristian Nemescu. This film, whose director was killed in a car accident before finishing production, won a Cannes award (Un Certain Regard) in 2007.
What's the film about? Romanians use to say that in 1945 they were waiting for Americans to come, but Russians came instead, and stayed. So, what happen when, after 50 years, in 1999, a group of American soldiers on their way to Kosov arrive to a lost village in the middle of nowhere?
This film reminded me of a Spanish classic, Welcome Mr. Marshall, shot in 1953 by Luis García Berlanga. Another painful comedy on a little village that prepares to receive the visit of Eisenhower during its first visit to Spain, as they have heard that the he´ll pass by the village
(Political context footnote: Ike's visit meant the end of the post Civil War Spanish international isolation, because of the fascist origin of the dictatorship, and the creation of the first US -later NATO- militare bases in Spanish territory. Not having participated in IIWW Spain was left out of Marshall aid and investment programme to postwar Europe).
Both films are terribly funny, terribly painful, terribly historically significant, showing a lot on external perception of "American Dream", "American way of life" and so on...
So I have started to think that it can be even a "minor genre" on similar movies... I came up, for example, with Everything is Illuminated, Liev Schreiber, 2005, which I think shares some features with these other two films, with very funny scenes based on Ukrainian sterotypes on American people...
Help me out with more recommendations, please!
