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Smart, visually arresting, and scathingly funny, Aferim! depicts a world that many American filmgoers have never seen -- but will still, in many respects, find utterly familiar.
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The tone is Rabelaisian and earthily comic in the minimalist, picturesque squalor of the settings. Jun 7, 2016 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
The tone is Rabelaisian and earthily comic in the minimalist, picturesque squalor of the settings.
Peter Keough
With a title that translates roughly as Attaboy!, this engaging and percipient period comedy focuses on the enslavement of the Roma people in 19th-century Romania. May 26, 2016 | Full Review…
With a title that translates roughly as Attaboy!, this engaging and percipient period comedy focuses on the enslavement of the Roma people in 19th-century Romania.
Leah Pickett
Somehow director Radu Jude's decision to film in black-and-white only heightens that sense of reality: It's as if the film is some ancient newsreel. Mar 28, 2016 | Rating: B | Full Review…
Somehow director Radu Jude's decision to film in black-and-white only heightens that sense of reality: It's as if the film is some ancient newsreel.
Tom Long
Shot in stark black and white, the picture's sense of place and time is strong - pungently so. Mar 24, 2016 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Shot in stark black and white, the picture's sense of place and time is strong - pungently so.
Soren Andersen
It's a tough world out there, and Costandin has found a way to survive in it. It's not always pretty, but in "Aferim!" it's never less than interesting. Feb 25, 2016 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
It's a tough world out there, and Costandin has found a way to survive in it. It's not always pretty, but in "Aferim!" it's never less than interesting.
Bill Goodykoontz
Shot in black and white with fade-out transitions, the movie harks back to classic westerns. But it's also distinctly modern. Feb 11, 2016 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Shot in black and white with fade-out transitions, the movie harks back to classic westerns. But it's also distinctly modern.
Stephanie Merry
Yet another film about how superior we are to those awful racists from the 19th-century. Jun 28, 2016 | Full Review…
Yet another film about how superior we are to those awful racists from the 19th-century.
Steve Erickson
Aferim! is the opposite of a cultural celebration. It uses startling, hilarious misanthropy to portray Eastern Europe's immoral legacy - a hapless, dissolute, pusillanimous culture that has bequeathed the region a cynical present. Jun 27, 2016 | Full Review…
Aferim! is the opposite of a cultural celebration. It uses startling, hilarious misanthropy to portray Eastern Europe's immoral legacy - a hapless, dissolute, pusillanimous culture that has bequeathed the region a cynical present.
Armond White
Although he's taking on a complex historical time...Radu Jude has made a very entertaining film...Marius Panduru, shooting long takes in b&w 35mm, achieves the illusion of a mittel-European Western rediscovered decades after its release. May 31, 2016 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
Although he's taking on a complex historical time...Radu Jude has made a very entertaining film...Marius Panduru, shooting long takes in b&w 35mm, achieves the illusion of a mittel-European Western rediscovered decades after its release.
Laura Clifford
Jude keeps his camera at judicious distance, but its grit sets it apart from the stern minimalism of most contemporary Romanian filmmaking. May 25, 2016 | Full Review…
Jude keeps his camera at judicious distance, but its grit sets it apart from the stern minimalism of most contemporary Romanian filmmaking.
Ray Pride
A boisterous black-and-white Romanian faux-western should not, by rights, be this funny, this jaw-droppingly well photographed, or this incisive in its depiction of society and history. Mar 21, 2016 | Rating: Highly Recommended | Full Review…
A boisterous black-and-white Romanian faux-western should not, by rights, be this funny, this jaw-droppingly well photographed, or this incisive in its depiction of society and history.
Jake Moody
A twisted history lesson whose messages transcend its insular time period of 19th-century Romania. Feb 19, 2016 | Rating: B | Full Review…
A twisted history lesson whose messages transcend its insular time period of 19th-century Romania.
Michael Snydel
Radu Jude crafts this visually classic Western in black and white with a camera that seems to glide in wide-angle long shots, and uses a comical - and curiously theatrical - approach to show the racism and sexism of a time that doesn't seem so distant from modern Romanian society.
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