Marius Olteanu's 'We Won't Get Old Together' Explores Pandemic Midlife Crisis in Bucharest
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Christopher Vourlias
Crackles when you bite it. Shows the baker did the work.
Summary
Romanian filmmaker Marius Olteanu is preparing his sophomore feature "We Won't Get Old Together," a pandemic-set drama about an unemployed architect named Radu navigating a midlife crisis in Bucharest during COVID-19 lockdowns. The film is being presented at the Transilvania International Film Festival's Works in Progress program. It marks Olteanu's first film since his 2019 Berlinale prizewinner "Monsters."
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· 3 pulledRomanian filmmaker Marius Olteanu ("Monsters.") is readying his sophomore feature, "We Won't Get Old Together," a pandemic-set drama about a man struggling to rebuild his life from the ground up when everything around him comes crashing down.
"We Won't Get Old Together" tells the story of Radu, an unemployed architect who finds himself at a crossroads amid the stultifying stillness and uncertainty of Bucharest during the pandemic.
Caught between two relationships and facing...
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