LUCIAN PINTILIE: The First Complete
U.S. Retrospective at MoMA
Director LUCIAN PINTILIE, actors VICTOR REBENGIUC and MARIANA MIHUT in attendance
The Romanian Cultural Institute in New York is proud to co-present with the Museum of Modern Art in NYC the first complete Lucian Pintilie retrospective in the U.S., with the participation of the prominent Romanian director. "One of Europe's finest filmmakers," writes Laurence Kardish, Senior Curator at MoMA, "Lucian Pintilie creates corrosive cinema that is at once original, ferocious, and hopeful." This special retrospective will give NYC audiences the chance to revisit some of his well known films in new prints, and discover lesser known productions. Lucian Pintilie will introduce the opening screening of REENACTMENT, one of the landmark Romanian films of all time, on Thursday, March 1 at 7 pm. The retrospective will also be accompanied by the first U.S. release of Pintilie's 2003 NIKI AND FLO. Legendary theatre and film actors Victor Rebengiuc and Mariana Mihut, long time collaborators of Lucian Pintilie, both in film and on stage, will also join this celebration and will introduce the March 3 screening of CARNIVAL SCENES. Additionally, the two actors will have a public conversation with Romanian audiences in NYC, moderated by film critic and curator Mihai Chirilov on Friday, March 2 at RCINY.
March 1-12 I The Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53 Street, NYC
FRI, March 2, 7 pm I RCINY
13 february 2012
