The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
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A 63-year-old widower falls gravely ill and is taken by ambulance from hospital to hospital through the night, each one passing him on. Harrowing, darkly comic, and deeply human: the founding film of the Romanian New Wave. The film was shot largely in real Bucharest hospital corridors with documentary-style direction across a forty-five-day schedule. Puiu has stated in interviews that the entire script was developed from a real-life incident he had witnessed personally. The Romanian New Wave's emergence in the late 2000s is widely treated in academic film studies as one of the most coherent and rapid national-cinema formations of the twenty-first century, comparable in significance to the South Korean New Wave of the same period. (source: europeanscreen.com)
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