Studiu de caz privind evoluția estetică a noului cinema de la Marfa și banii la Aferim!

Abstract

The paper aims to analyse the aesthetic evolution of the Romanian New Wave genre, by examining two films at the opposite ends of its timeline. In the case of these films, the manifestation of beauty is not only an artistic expression method, but it also includes an affirmation of realistic elements, starting from the scenes selected and ending with the phenotype of the actor chosen to play the main character. Aesthetics, in fact, reaches its splendor only when the visual creativity is noticed, offering the viewers delight, but also a correspondent in reality. If „The Stuff and Dough” by Cristi Puiu is a „day-in-the-life look” at a group of young people living in a post-communist country still recovering, shot in a way that validates the catchphrase Romanian New Wave, „Aferim!”, directed by Radu Jude, marks a detachment from the previously explored contemporaneity, the directorial discourse focusing the viewer`s gaze on a historical moment in order to identify the possible acts of social injustice. Finally, the questions related to various historical or contemporary
contexts give rise to a type of filmic communication within the society that produces communion on a human level.