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Original name: Monștri
English name: Monsters
Year: 2019
Run time: 116'
Language: Romanian
Type (Colour/ Black & white): Colour
Country: Romania
Director: Marius Olteanu
Producer: Claudiu Mitcu (Parada Films), Marius Olteanu
Cast: Judith State, CristianPopa, AlexandruPotocean,
ȘerbanPavlu, Dorina Lazar
Screenplay: Marius Olteanu
Cinematographer: Luchian Ciobanu
Editor: Ioachim Stroe
Sound Designer: Ioan Filip, Dan Ștefan Rucăreanu
Costume Designer: Alexandra Alma Ungureanu
Production Designer: Alexandra Alma Ungureanu
Production Company: Parada Film, We are Basca
World Sales: Alpha Violet
World Sales Phone: +33 1 47 97 39 84
World Sales Email: info@alphaviolet.com
Berlin IFF 2019
Sofia IFF 2019
Thessaloniki FF 2019
IFFI 2019
2015 Tie
2017 No Man's Land
2007 Sunday afternoon
2008 Why don’t you dance?
After graduating from NFTS, UK with an MA in Fiction Film Directing, Marius Olteanu has chosen to focus on the clash between private and social life andthe boundariesthat arise. His lasttwo shorts, Tie (2015), and No man’s land (2017) were selected in morethan 30 festivals – Busan IFF, Tallinn POFF, Namur FIFF, TIFF etc. Thesefilms show his interest in exploringwhat lies beyond the perfect surfaceof things and finding new cinematicways to conveythe struggle withone’s own limits. Marius is also a published photographer.
Dana returns to Bucharest but decides not to go home. She pays the taxi driver for the whole night. At the same time, Andrei goes to the gym and afterwards has sex with a man. The next morning, Dana and Andrei meet in their marital bed and spend the day together. Perhaps for the last time.A relationship drama in three chapters that describes the current state of a couple over 24 hours. It is not about psychology but rather capturing moods and atmosphere. Even if the conversation between Dana and the taxi driver is hardly in-depth, everything is said. Dana’s loneliness is palpable when she turns off her phone after talking to Andrei, who for his part seems strangely lost in the apartment of the man he meets for sex. The two must ask themselves whether there is still room for feelings. What happened? Why can they no longer give each other support despite their shared intimacy and affection?
