Metronom

Alexandru Belc

Talents Romania, France 102 min Catalan premiere Fiction

Synopsis

Bucharest, 1972. Ana, 17, dreams of love and freedom. One night, while partying with her friends, they decide to send a letter to Metronom, the musical program which Radio Free Europe broadcasts clandestinely in Romania. It is then that the Securitate, Ceausescu’s secret police, arrives…

Themes

FriendshipLoveEuropean CinemaComing-of-ageMusic

Filmmaker

Alexandru Belc

He graduated from the Bucharest Film School in 2007 and obtained a master’s degree in political sciences in 2012. He has worked as an Assistant Director for Corneliu Porumboiu and Cristian Mungiu. His first feature documentary, March 8th, about women in the workplace, screened in numerous international festivals in 2013. His second feature documentary, Cinema My Love, a portrait of a Romanian art-house exhibitor, was distributed by Outplay Films in France and released in theaters in May 2017. Metronom, his first fiction film, was in the Official Selection Un Certain Regard at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival.

Filmography: Metronom (2022, D'A 2023), Cinema My Love (2017), March 8th (2013)

Alexandru Belc

Film information

Director: Alexandru Belc
Script: Alexandru Belc
Contact: Pyramide Films
With: Mara Bugarin, Serban Lazarovici, Vlad Ivanov
Country: Romania, France
Year: 2022
Format: DCP
Length: 102 min
Language: Romanian
Subtitles: English, Catalan
Edition: 2023

Awards

CANNES FILM FESTIVAL
Best Direction of the Un Certain Regard selection

GIJÓN FILM FESTIVAL
Best Film of the Retueyos selection

Poster

Metronom