Romanian cinema announced itself to international audiences in the 2000s with the Romanian New Wave, a movement defined by long takes, moral ambiguity and unflinching social realism. Radu Jude's Aferim! shows that spirit extending into period drama, turning a 19th-century road film into a sharp reckoning with prejudice and history. See what Macca made of it and more below.
Rating: 4.0★
July 1995. The town of Srebrenica, in eastern Bosnia, became the site of the worst mass atrocity on European soil since the Second World War. Over the course of a few days, more than eight thousand Bosniak Muslim men and boys were systematically murdered by Bosnian Serb forces under the
Genre Drama
★ — Aferim! (2015)
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