Metronom
2022 - ROMANIA/ FRANCE - 102 MINUTES - IN ROMANIAN WITH ENGLISH AND FRENCH SUBTITLES
A FILM BY ALEXANDRU BELC
2022 Cannes Film Festival - Official Selection - UN CERTAIN REGARD - BEST DIRECTING PRIZE
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Bucharest, 1972. Ana, 17, dreams of love and freedom. One night, while partying with her friends, they decide to send a letter to Metronom, the musical program which Radio Free Europe broadcasts clandestinely in Romania. It is then that the Securitate, Ceausescu’s secret police, arrives...
“A marvelous coming of age story and can we say a political thriller or is it an examination of stupidity of a desperate regime?” - Set the Bar
“it’s the depiction of the collision between free-spirits and pointlessly reactionary authoritiarianism that makes Metronom memorable” - Original Cin
“Metronom is a brilliant film” - Classical FM
“ a wondrous film that celebrates the teenage spirit, even in the face of injustice at the highest level” - Exclaim
“There were times when oppressive times make everything worse for people who want to be free.” - In the Seats