A 16th birthday that launches a lifetime of beautiful agony — Romanian drama hits different.
Eva meets Tudor on the day of her 16th birthday. It is Tudor who is to make her feel whole as a woman. He becomes for her a source of both love and suffering through his constant mysterious departures and reappearances.
Acting
Amy Beth Hayes carries decades of longing in her eyes.
Cinematography
Romanian countryside as both prison and promised land.
Director
Adrian Popovici
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Romania's New Wave resurgence, though more romantic than the movement's typically stark social realism. Director Adrian Popovici deliberately evokes 19th-century literary traditions of female sacrifice.
Maia Morgenstern, who plays Eva's mother Maria, is internationally famous as Mary in Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ — bringing her own maternal suffering iconography.
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