The European Film Prize goes to Romania

The Romanian abortion drama "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days" by director Cristian Mungiu won the best film prize Saturday at the European Film Awards in Berlin. Alexandra Olivotto is delighted: "The fact that both the jury at Cannes and the jury of the European Film Academy coincided in this says a lot about the quality of the film. ... The question now is whether the colleagues in Hollywood will be infected by the stormy passion for this film here in Europe. For although Mungiu has now been awarded two 'European Oscars', that's no guarantee he'll receive the real one. The film 'The Lives of Others', which also won two European film prizes, was an exception rather than the rule. The European Film Academy is younger; the American Film Academy has many more members and they are older. Seldom in its recent history has the Oscar for the best foreign film gone to a revolutionary film."

» full article (external link, Romanian)
More from the press review on the subject » Film, » Europe, » U.S., » Romania