#Alexander Nanau

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L'homme aux mille visages, Sonia Kronlund (2024)

[haverwood]

Lumea vãzutã de Ion B. Alexander Nanau Romania, 2009 ★★★

[lesbiancolumbo]

2019

i think instead of going for my "favorite" favorite i'm gonna whip out a few movies i think should have more views/attention from people here. so, without further ado:

clemency (chinonye chukwu), the body remembers when the world broke open (kathleen hepburn, elle-máijá tailfeathers), collective (alexander nanau), saint frances (alex thompson), beanpole (kantemir balagov)

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(via Oscar 2025 Miglior film internazionale: la Romania seleziona Three Kilometres to the End of the World )

La Romania punta agli Oscar2025 con Three Kilometers to the End of the World, un dramma che scuote le coscienze, indagando le profondità dei pregiudizi e le conseguenze devastanti che possono avere su una comunità, svelando come ipocrisie e fragilità viaggiano sullo stesso binario.

Nella storia degli Oscar la Romania ha conquistato 1 nomination con il pluripremiato documentario Colectiv diretto da Alexander Nanau che riuscì ad entrare anche nella cinquina per il miglior documentario. Solo 1 volta è riuscita poi ad entrare nella short-list dei semifinalisti senza però ottenere la candidatura e cioè nel 2013 con Oltre le colline di Cristian Mungiu.

[kurtlukiraz]

Thomas Vinterberg'yönetmenliğinde, Mads Mikkelsen'başrolünde yer almıştı Druk filmi, En İyi Film, En İyi Direktör, En İyi Adam Artist ve En İyi Senaryo dallarında ödüle layık görülerek ödüllerin kazananı oldu. Senenin öne çıkan belgesellerinden KolektifEn İyi Biyografi Ödülü'nü kazanırken, Christian Petzold imzalı Yemek yeme'daki performansıyla Paula Bira En İyi Hanım Sanatçı ödülüne layık görüldü. Dağıtılan bütün fiyatlara aşağıdan ulaşabilirsiniz. Avrupa Sağlığı En İyi Film: Druk (Başka Tur) – Thomas Vinterberg Avrupa İyi Bakım En Biyografi: Kolektif (Kolektif) – Alexander Nanau En İyi Direktör: Thomas Vinterberg-Druk En İyi Hanım Sanatçısı: Paula Bira - Undine En İyi Adam Sanatçı: Mads Mikkelsen – Druk En İyi Senaryo: Thomas Vinterberg ve Tobias Lindholm - Druk Avrupa İyileştirici En Güldürü: Büyük Hit – Emmanuel Courcol Avrupa İyi Bakım En 3D: Josep – Aurel Avrupa İyileştirici En Kısa Film: Karanlıkta Bütün Kediler Gridir - Lasse Linder FIPRESCI Bulgu Ödülü: Taban – Carlo Sironi Üniversite Film Ödülü: Suudi Kaçak – Susanne Regina Meures En İyi Müzik: Dascha Dauenhauer – Berlin Alexanderplatz En İyi Görüntü Yönetimi: Matteo Cocco – Gizli Uzakta En İyi Prodüksiyon Tasarımı: Cristina Casali – David Copperfield'in Kişisel Tarihi En İyi Kostüm Tasarımı: Ursula Patzak – Saklı Yerde En İyi Makyaj ve Saç Tasarımı: Yolanda Piña & Félix Terrero & Nacho Díaz – Sonsuz Siper En İyi Kurgu: Maria Fantastica Valmori - Bir Kez Daha İhlale Doğru En İyi Ses Tasarımı: Yolande Decarsin – Küçük Kız En İyi Görsel Efekt: Iñaki Madariaga – Platform

[gundemburadadedim]

Thomas Vinterberg'yönetmenliğinde, Mads Mikkelsen'başrolünde yer almıştı Druk filmi, En İyi Film, En İyi Direktör, En İyi Adam Artist ve En İyi Senaryo dallarında ödüle layık görülerek ödüllerin kazananı oldu. Senenin öne çıkan belgesellerinden KolektifEn İyi Biyografi Ödülü'nü kazanırken, Christian Petzold imzalı Yemek yeme'daki performansıyla Paula Bira En İyi Hanım Sanatçı ödülüne layık görüldü. Dağıtılan bütün fiyatlara aşağıdan ulaşabilirsiniz. Avrupa Sağlığı En İyi Film: Druk (Başka Tur) – Thomas Vinterberg Avrupa İyi Bakım En Biyografi: Kolektif (Kolektif) – Alexander Nanau En İyi Direktör: Thomas Vinterberg-Druk En İyi Hanım Sanatçısı: Paula Bira - Undine En İyi Adam Sanatçı: Mads Mikkelsen – Druk En İyi Senaryo: Thomas Vinterberg ve Tobias Lindholm - Druk Avrupa İyileştirici En Güldürü: Büyük Hit – Emmanuel Courcol Avrupa İyi Bakım En 3D: Josep – Aurel Avrupa İyileştirici En Kısa Film: Karanlıkta Bütün Kediler Gridir - Lasse Linder FIPRESCI Bulgu Ödülü: Taban – Carlo Sironi Üniversite Film Ödülü: Suudi Kaçak – Susanne Regina Meures En İyi Müzik: Dascha Dauenhauer – Berlin Alexanderplatz En İyi Görüntü Yönetimi: Matteo Cocco – Gizli Uzakta En İyi Prodüksiyon Tasarımı: Cristina Casali – David Copperfield'in Kişisel Tarihi En İyi Kostüm Tasarımı: Ursula Patzak – Saklı Yerde En İyi Makyaj ve Saç Tasarımı: Yolanda Piña & Félix Terrero & Nacho Díaz – Sonsuz Siper En İyi Kurgu: Maria Fantastica Valmori - Bir Kez Daha İhlale Doğru En İyi Ses Tasarımı: Yolande Decarsin – Küçük Kız En İyi Görsel Efekt: Iñaki Madariaga – Platform

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actual proof that I resent & remember more than I think I do, I guess, is the fact that I'm still incredibly pissed that in 2021 the oscar for best documentary went to that self-indulgent boring slog about the octopus scuba diver (?) instead of rightfully going to the gripping, raw, infuriating, superbly crafted piece of cinéma vérité that was Collective (Romania-Luxenburg, 2019; dir. Alexander Nanau)

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Colectiv (Collective), 2019, Alexander Nanau, documentary

Most of my entries are quite positive but unfortunately not this one. I saw this movie a few months ago and unfortunately, the longer I thought about this film, the less I appreciated it. Even during the movie, I had to stop from time to time to recollect myself because I got so annoyed by this film.

So the documentary has in focus the aftermath of the fire from a club from Bucharest in 2015 that claimed the life of many young people. Although many died during the fire, a lot more died the following days in the hospitals due to poor conditions, insufficient and inadequate resources and as the movie uncovers, a corrupt system that kept hidden all those problems.

I remember very well the night the accident happened, and the national heartbreak as daily more and more deceased were announced. I also remember the public outrage, which for many middle-class Romanians was a sort of political awakening and call for action, which unfortunately got limited in its scope over time. I remember the protests in the streets and the hope we got when the government fell, and how people were discussing further demands and ways of organizing politically.

Although the film is called Collective, after the club that burned, the documentary has in focus a handful of journalists who investigate the corruption that hid behind the death toll from the hospitals on the one hand, and one politician who was replacing temporary the Ministry of Health after the fall of the government.

The film starts with gruesome raw footage from the fire, which I have to say did not felt very comfortable watching and it felt like opening a closed wound. I don't think many will agree, but I felt the movie was kinda exploiting the macabre image of the fire that triggers a powerful emotional response as well as the image of the burnt victims without actually giving them much thought or voice. This is the main reason this documentary did not sit well with me. I felt when watching the film that the victims had no real agency, were never given a voice or a space to express themselves in any way. I felt that throughout the movie the victims were used as props, as passive objects to pity and not fully-fledged subjects within of a film focused on an accident in which they were directly involved. Although it is suggested, and the movie starts with them in focus, you soon realize that the stars of the movie are some journalists (for which I have all the respect) and one over his head politician, who is framed as some big saviour and tragic hero.

Here is where we arrive at my second issue with this movie, the obvious propagandistic overtone o the film. It seemed to me that the whole movie was constructed on a clear and simple narrative, in which Vlad Voiculescu was some sort of hero that was fighting a corrupt system. Especially the second part was dedicated almost exclusively to the mediocre politician image.

I supposed I am maybe a bit unfair to this documentary, which had its strengths of capturing a complicated event in recent Romanian history in an eloquent way. It's just that it fed on an anti-corruption narrative that has so many issues in Romania, and which is used in order to push a neoliberal agenda of further weakening the state and expanding privatisations. I probably would have liked it more if I did not live in Romania and did not feel the consequences of the neoliberal policies, and also if I did not hear the washed-up narrative of anti-corruption for so many years. Yes, corruption is bad, but is not just an East-European problem and definitely is not the only or even main issue in this part of the world. Anti-corruption is just a simple answer to a bunch of complicated problems. 7/10

[themovieworldaccordingtotps]

BEST FILM SHOTS OF 2020 (Theme: Separation)

Bad Education – DP: Lyle Vincent Blow The Man Down – DP: Todd Banhazl Collective – DP: Alexander Nanau Mank – DP: Erik Messerschmidt Mogul Mowgli – DP: Anika Summerson Promising Young Woman – DP: Benjamin Kračun Run – DP: Hillary Fyffe Spera The Devil All The Time – DP: Lol Crawley The Invisible Man – DP: Stefan Duscio The Platform – DP: Jon D. Dominguez

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Collective (2019)

This is a documentary following journalists and politicians in the aftermath of the 2015 Colectiv nightclub fire in Bucharest, Romania. It was really really good. The true story must be so incredibly complicated and convoluted, this movie felt like it was bursting at the seams trying to get as much relevant in as possible in while honouring the victims of the fire.

[indiasong]

Colectiv (2019, Alexander Nanau)

[sweetsmellosuccess]

During the drudgery of the last four years, we got to see the news media first written off as "fake," then thoroughly vilified as the real enemy of the people by our sitting president -- who didn't appreciate that, for the most part, the media was trying to do its job in reporting the truth behind the constant stream of exaggerations, evasions, and utter lies from the bureaucracy charged with governing and protecting the will of the people.

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#90: Collective/colectiv (2019, dir. by Alexander Nanau)

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Collective

directed by Alexander Nanau, 2019

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2020 Best Documentary Feature: Collective

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