METRONOM
Lovesick highschooler Ana (Mara Bugarin) is beside herself, distraught that her boyfriend (Serban Lazarovici, UPPERCASE PRINT) is planning to flee Nicolae Ceausescu's oppressive regime for Germany, without giving her a second thought. Dead set on changing his mind, she heads to a classmate's party with an agenda. But Ceausescu's secret police intervene, busting the kids for listening to METRONOM, a Radio Free Europe program making waves for clandestinely broadcasting American rock across communist Romania. Filmmaker Alexandru Belc makes his assured feature narrative debut with this '70s-set drama after getting his start as a script supervisor on Cristian Mungiu's Palme d'Or-winning 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS and assistant director on Corneliu Porumboiu's acclaimed POLICE, ADJECTIVE. Official Selection, 2022 Cannes Film Festival. DIR/SCR Alexandru Belc; PROD Viorel Chesaru, Cãtãlin Mitulescu, Emmanuel Quillet, Ruxandra Slotea, Martine Vidalenc. Romania/France, 2022, color, 103 min. In Romanian with English subtitles. NOT RATED
No AFI Member passes accepted.
Run Time: 103 Minutes
Opening Date: Friday, December 09, 2022
Genre: Drama, coming-of-age
