Tales from the Golden Age (2011)
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Reviews Counted: 31
Fresh: 29 | Rotten: 2
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Average Rating: 6.4/10
Critic Reviews: 6
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The final 15 years of the Ceausescu regime were the worst in Romania's history. Nonetheless, the propaganda machine of that time referred without fail to that period as "the golden age"... Tales from the Golden Age adapts for screen the most popular urban myths of the period. Comic, bizarre, surprising myths abounded, myths that drew on the often surreal events of everyday life under the communist regime. Humor is what kept Romanians alive, and Tales from the Golden Age aims to re-capture that
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Alexandru Potocean
The Secretary, The Secr... -
Teo Corban
The Mayor ('Legend of t... -
Emanuel Pirvu
The Party Inspector ('L... -
Avram Birau
Photographer ('Legend o... -
Paul Dunca
Photo Assistant ('Legen... -
Viorel Comanici
Party Secretary ('Legen... -
Ion Sapdaru
Policeman Alexa, Police... -
Virginia Mirea
Policeman's Wife ('Lege... -
Gabriel Spahiu
Policeman Best Neighbor... -
Diana Cavallioti
Crina, Crina ('Legend o... -
Vlad Ivanov
Grigore, Grigore ('Lege... -
Tania Popa
Camelia ('Legend of the... -
Liliana Mocanu
Marusia ('Legend of the... -
Calin Chirila
The Party Activist, The... -
Romeo Tudor
Shepard ('Legend of the...
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The collection is a mixed bag, although there are no clunkers.
Top CriticThere are moments, especially in the first two tales, that conjure a maniacal Chaplinesque verve.
Bracketed by the Ceausescu anthem, the movie recalls a social disaster in painstaking detail and with a measure of ambivalent love.
Though much lighter than the country's art-house fare of the past few years, the collection serves as a sampler of the much-heralded Romanian cinema.
It's a frustrating case of individual triumph cancelling out collective cohesion in this sporadically enjoyable, if tonally mismatched, anthology of five short films.
[The directors'] youth and talent should allay fears that the country's film explosion is incapable of hitting a broad range of notes, and offer hope that more mainstream, home-grown offerings can spur cinema building within Romania.
'Golden' opportunity for foreign-language film buffs.
All the stories have their merits, celebrating a people amusingly out of step with their stalwart, demented leaders.
This deeply human array of short films dealing with Communist Romania provides many a well-observed laugh and moment of hard-pressed economic truth.
it is hard to comprehend a mindset that wouldn't be entertained and invigorated by the six shorts that make up Tales from the Golden Age.
Puiu's a skillful widescreen filmmaker, but he's also an urban snob who finds farm animals backward and funny.
Has the so-called Romanian New Wave slowed to a trickle?
Boasts tonal cohesiveness but also a dispiriting lack of bite.
All the short movies that make up Tales From the Golden Age employ the sort of black humour that suggests you'd better laugh, or you'll cry.
More often than not, this mixed bag hits its mark, but in two drawn-out stories, the rhythm, not to mention the absurdist plot twists, fall flat.
Every tale is engaging, but not wildly amusing - still, I can imagine Romanian viewers enjoying it. In other words, perhaps you had to be there.
This is a low-key, deadpan movie and the jokes creep up on you.
Flashes of bleak humour makes this wry portrait a compelling experience.
Shot with clarity and plenty of dry humour, this impressive collection of five short films is proof of the youthful vitality of the New Romanian Cinema.
While this wry, sometimes poignant collection ultimately runs a little long, it serves as a useful introduction to the talent that makes Romania the place to look for exciting new voices in cinema.
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Foreign Titles
- Erinnerungen an das goldene Zeitalter (DE)
- Tales From the Golden Age (Amintiri din epoca de aur) (UK)
