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Event Date as Display String:

Sunday, May 19, 2019, 7:00pm - 10:00pm

Location:

Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge

URL:

https://library.harvard.edu/film/films/2019marmay/romanian.html#pororoca

Event Description:

Gazette Classification: Film Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Film
Archive Cost: $9 - Regular Admission $7 - Non-Harvard Students,
Harvard Faculty and Staff, and Senior Citizens. Free for Harvard
students Contact Info: bgravely@fas.harvard.edu Link:
https://library.harvard.edu/film/films/2019marmay/romanian.html#pororoca
Constantin Popescu's film of a couple and their missing child is as
realistic, as brutally immersive an experience as cinema can provide.
The distanced wide-shots that replicate the experience of the
uncontrollable chaos of life are the same ones which make it easy to
lose sight of a child playing with others in a busy park, while the
nervous, handheld tracking camera plummets the viewer into the sweaty,
panicked palpitations of searching or following any stray leads.
Popescu's audience not only lives with Tudor — the father who lost
track of the child for that single, most feared moment — they live
inside his grief, his horror, his attempts to distract himself, his
frustration with the police and eventually, his obsession with a man
who regularly visits the park alone. Named after a destructive tidal
wave which occurs in rivers, not oceans, "Pororoca" astounds in its
unbelievable power to induce the audience into total identification
with Tudor, even as he edges frighteningly toward the same
indescribable darkness that took his daughter away.

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Event Start Date as Date Type:

Sunday, May 19, 2019 - 19:00 to 22:00

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