Speed Cinema Presents: Talk Cinema: Graduation (Bacalaureat)
Wednesday, April 12, 7:00 p.m.
Speed Art Museum Cinema
“Meticulously structured.”—Stuart Klawans, The Nation
Romeo, a physician living in a small mountain town in Transylvania, has raised his daughter Eliza with the idea that once she turns 18, she will leave to study and live abroad. His plan is close to succeeding–Eliza has won a scholarship to study psychology in the U.K. She just has to pass her final exams–a formality for such a good student. On the day before her first written exam, Eliza is assaulted in an attack that could jeopardize her entire future. Now Romeo has to make a decision. There are ways of solving the situation, but none of them using the principles he, as a father, has taught his daughter.
Internationally acclaimed director Cristian Mungiu returns with a powerful and universal study about the imprecision of parenthood, the relativity of truth and the ambiguity of compromise, revealed by a father-daughter relationship. The story is conveyed with a unique and uncompromising vision. A selection of the Cannes Film Festival. 2016, Romania/France/Belgium, DCP, in Romanian with English subtitles, 128 minutes.
Don’t forget to bring your Speed Art Museum membership card to verify your membership.