Aferim!

Director: Radu Jude

2015 / 108min / DCP

Jude won Best Director from a Berlin jury for this, his third feature, a meticulously detailed, ribald evocation of 19th-century Romania evoking Cervantes and Rabelais as well as the American horse opera, and shot in tactilely textured black and white, following a blundering constable (Teodor Corban) and his weedy son as they trail a fugitive—a runaway Roma slave accused of rape by a grandee living in the cop’s jurisdiction—across the countryside of Wallachia. “Combine[s] the best pleasures of historical romp, road movie, and Western… A rich plundering of the language and prejudices of its time that makes you gasp and laugh despite yourself.” —Sight & Sound

Distributor: Big World Pictures