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Title: Win 'Child's Prose' double in-season pass
Post by: culturebird on Friday 11 April 2014, 07:28:33 am
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Thanks to Palace Films we are giving away a double pass of the Golden Bear 2013 movie winner Child’s Pose!


Palace Films

presents

CHILD’S POSE

A film by Calin Peter Netzer


Winner – Berlin Film Festival 2013 – Golden Bear

 

Starring
Luminita Gheorghiu

Bogdan Dumitrache, Ilinca Goia, Natasa Raab, Florin Zamfirescu, Vlad Ivanov



Australian Release: May 15, 2014

Rating: M



CHILD’S POSE

Hailed internationally by audiences and critics, and popular winner of the coveted Golden Bear at the 2013 Berlinale, Calin Peter Netzer‘s CHILD’S POSE is a riveting thriller that centres on the vice-like grip of a mother’s misplaced affection for her son, and the repercussions of her actions when his wellbeing is placed in jeopardy.

60-year-old Cornelia (the phenomenal Luminita Gheorghiu) leads a life of privilege, social power and abundant material wealth in contemporary Bucharest, but life is not perfect. More than anything in the world, she longs for her 34 year-old son Barbu (Bogdan Dumitrache) to reciprocate her unreserved affections. Perhaps as a consequence, he can barely tolerate her presence - something the domineering Cornelia blames on Barbu’s live-in girlfriend (who has a child from a previous relationship).

The balance of power irrevocably shifts one cold evening when Barbu is involved in a tragic car accident. Seeing her chance to regain control, Cornelia commences a frighteningly well-
orchestrated campaign to save her son from prison. Unfortunately the germaphobic, foul-mouthed Barbu, boiling with anger yet hopelessly emasculated, refuses to play along…

Propelled by Gheorghiu’s towering, tour-de-force performance and a razor-sharp attention to class and generational resentments, Netzer’s engrossing film lays bare the moral bankruptcy of upper class, post-Ceaușescu Romanian society and its institutions in expert fashion. Disquieting but also compassionate, this examination of guilt and the crippling effects of loss became a national talking point upon release in Romania last year (breaking 20 year-old box office records) and makes for a fascinating, unforgettable cinema experience.

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Closing Date: Wed. 14 May 14