The 63rd edition of Locarno Film Festival (the first curated by Cannes' Olivier Père) happended to be a great one for Romanian cinema. Marian Crișan’s first feature – Morgen, claimed three awards receiving the Premio speciale della giuria (Special Jury Prize), Ecumenical Prize and the Ficc / Iffs Don Quijote Prize and Ana Ularu, the thesp profiled below, received the Prix Boccalino de la Presse – the Swiss press award for Best Actress for her role in Bogdan George Apetri’s Periferic (Outbound – which will receive it's North American premiere at the Toronto Int. Film Festival). Ularu plays Matilda, a young woman who, after two years spent in prison for prostitution, is granted a 24-hour temporary release. Variety calls the film "a natural fest item likely to benefit from the attention paid to new Romanian cinema,” and mentions that "Ularu's intense steely glare could use some modulation, but her near-constant physical tension...
- 8/30/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
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