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Uppercase Print

2020

Radu Jude

Serban Pavlu, Alexandru Potocean, Ioana Iacob, Constantin Dogioiu ...

6.2

139

Drama Romania, year 1981. It is the story of Mugur Calinescu, a Romanian teenager who wrote graffiti messages of protest against the regime of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and was subsequently apprehended, interrogated, and ultimately crushed by the secret police.

	Media	Author	Review
		Stephen Dalton The Hollywood Reporter	"Austere but affecting (...) A tragic episode in recent history that resonates as both a local, personal story and a timely universal allegory about authoritarian abuse of power"
		Jonathan Romney Screendaily	"[An] uncompromising but accessible and involving film (...) Working with Carbunariu, Jude offers a spare, visually striking evocation of the methods of Ceausescu’s secret police"
		Jessica Kiang Variety	"While the film feels closest in kinship to 'Barbarians' (...) it lacks a little of the shrewd, sparking intellectual electricity that so energized [it] (...) The fangs of the past are sharp, but muzzled.
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"[A] chilling work of filmed theatre (...) It is a fierce and impassioned denunciation of evil(…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		William Repass Slant	"'Uppercase Print' insists that we not be taken in by new, more sophisticated methods of obfuscation, and to see power for what it is, regardless of how it presents itself (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Marta Bałaga Cineuropa	"Complex, smart and brutally overlong, it quickly turns into the weirdest investigation in recent memory (...) That Jude is one of the most interesting Romanian directors is now a given,"

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