What_a_Wonderful_World_(film)

<i>What a Wonderful World</i> (film)

What a Wonderful World (film)

2014 Moldovan film


What a Wonderful World (Romanian: Ce Lume Minunată) is a 2014 Moldovan film directed and written by Anatol Durbală, set during the April 2009 Moldovan parliamentary election protests.[1][2][3]

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Plot

A 22-year-old Moldovan comes home from Boston, Massachusetts and finds himself in the midst of a major protest.[4]

Reception

The jury wishes to acknowledge a director whose feature début shows much promise with an urgency and intensity in its storytelling out of a country with virtually no film industry since its independence in 1991. A deceptively spare take on a wrong-place-at-the-wrong-time scenario, the film deftly weaves events of a violent populist uprising by the young generation whose time has come to display their rage and mistrust of a corrupt and backward-looking government, leading to a shocking climax for its unwitting protagonist.[5]

Warsaw Film Festival award citation

At the 2014 Warsaw Film Festival, Durbală won the FIPRESCI Prize.[6] At the 2015 Independent Film Festival Boston it won Best Director, Best Foreign Film and Best Writing awards.[7] Controversially, the film was not submitted for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, despite Moldova submitting films in the two previous years; this was presumed to be because the political content was embarrassing to the Moldovan government.[8]


References

  1. "What a Wonderful World / Ce Lume Minunata". FilmFreeway.
  2. "Ce lume minunata - IMDb" via www.imdb.com.

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