California Dreamin’ (Endless), along with such movies as 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days, and 12:08 East of Bucharest, forms one of the cornerstones of the ongoing Romanian New Wave movement. The director Cristian Nemescu, who tragically died when the movie was deep in post-production, didn’t just suffuse the movie with vivid realism, but also with enough pinching humour, bitter ironies and oblique critical insights to disturb the viewers while also enthralling them. A bitingly satirical yet deeply human…

4 weeks, 3 months & 2 days (4 luni, 3 săptămâni şi 2 zile) – Sounds like an apocalyptic countdown to the end of the world. But Romanian Director Cristian Mungiu didn’t have a science fiction or Faustian theme in mind, he wanted to capture reality in brutal earnestness. To him it represented the time which an unborn child breathed inside the womb of a reluctant mother-to-be, before she decided to get rid of it, or perhaps it was the duration of a mortified girl’s agony over her predicament that could cost her everything she is working towards. Most likely, it’s both.