what a try! !!!!!
letztes jahr haben sauseschritt nette arbeitskolleg/innen aus slowenien etappenweise begleitet (hi, pavel, thanks for your introduction to slovenian history, politics and culture), diesmal könnten ja auch bloggerkolleg/inn/en mit von der partie sein. es müssen ja nicht die ganzen 500 km sein. man melde sich einfach. *grin*

(...) Otilia (Anamaria Marinca) and Gabita (Laura Vasiliu) are college roommates. They may live in the wintry squalor of 1987 Romania -- in the last days of Communism -- but their lives seem familiar to us despite that gigantic difference; they have exams coming up, friends and lovers, future opportunities and current challenges. They may buy their perfume on the black market, but they still buy it -- they're kids, essentially. There's school; there's the joy and effort of friendships; there's the looming reality of future mandatory military service; most pressingly, Gabita needs to have an abortion -- in a rigidly-policed state where that's been illegal for decades. Otilia is going to help her -- How could she not? -- but neither of them are prepared for what that's ultimately going to cost.
so machten in jüngster zeit auch the nation und npr mit ausgezeichneten rezensionen auf den film aufmerksam. deshalb hier nicht nur der trailer, sondern auch ein höchst spannendes interview mit dem regississeur ... (eng) über die genese des films, seine generation und die situation des rumäniuschen filmes heute.
(...) saving someones life is like falling in love. the best drug in the world. for days, sometimes for weeks afterwards you walk the street, making infinite whatever you see. once, for a few weeks, I could not feel the earth. everything I touched bcame lighter. horns played in my shoes, flowers fell from my pockets. you wonder if you become a moral as you saved your own life as well. god has passed through you, why deny it, and for a moment there, god was you. taking credits when things go right, doesn´t work the other way. when things go wrong, spreading the blame is an essential medical surviving tune. the elevator broke down, the boy friend was crazy. i shouldn´t called him sick, the tube wouldn´t go in. the god of hellfire is not a role that anyone wants to play (...)
after a while i could understand that my role was less about saving lives than about bearing witness (...)
bloggerkollegin charming quark, die gleichzeitig auch hardcore - skandinavien - fan ist, macht uns in zwei postings (1) (2) auf den diesjährigen schwerpunkt der berlinale aufmerksam: neue filme aus dem hohen norden. die berlinale liegt mit diesem vorhaben gerne im trend:(...) Skandinavische Filme zeigen in den vergangenen Jahren eine ausgesprochen hohe Festivalpräsenz, allein an der diesjährigen Berlinale waren beispielsweise 20 skandinavische Produktionen zu finden. Bei Filmen aus Dänemark, Schweden, Norwegen und Island gilt meist schon das Produktionsland als Garant für hohe Kinoqualität und sie gehören, nicht ohne Grund, zum gut besuchten Segment der Programmkino- und Arthousefilme (...)
mehr davon auf einer darmstädter seite.
From building opera houses with wire to mapping the connection between the automobile and your mother-in-law, Jaime Lerner delights in discovering eccentric solutions to vexing urban problems. In the process he has transformed the face of cities worldwide.

