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A Roof Over Our Heads
(Un acoperi? deasupra coprolui)

Cert: (adv 12A)

Dir. Adrian Popovici
Romania, 2006, 110 mins

Cast: Mara Nicolescu, Gabriela Butuc, Valentin Popescu, Alin Panc, Sorin Misirian?u, Ovidiu Nicolescu, Marius Bodochi

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The short film Centsless will be shown with this feature.
These are exciting times in Romanian cinema. In the wake of the bleakly funny critical favourite The Death of Mr Lazarescu, films re-evaluating the 1989 overthrow of the Ceau?escu regime have hit the European film festival circuit over the past few months. A Roof Over Our Heads takes a wry look at Romanian society - this time set in a little known corner of the country, where the Danube meets the Black Sea. We're among reed beds, meandering streams, in an environment that hardly seems like any previously seen in much of European cinema.

When Romania's overcrowded asylums decide to discharge all patients suffering ‘merely’ from neurosis or depression in a cost-cutting exercise, two such individuals - timid, sometime-suicidal Mona (Butuc) and down-to-earth, volatile Cati (Nicolescu) - find they have nowhere to go. They form an unlikely alliance in adversity and set off together into the world outside. Mona’s grandparents once left her a “house” in the Danube Delta, so with no money off they go, Mona hoping it will have the charm of the idyllic childhood visits there that she remembers. The Delta area proves dreamy, laid- ...

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