Chelaru’s confident handling of the material makes him a talent to watch and should guarantee extensive festival exposure and perhaps some arthouse interest in territories that have previously supported key titles from the earlier Romanian New Wave.Ī portrait of a life that often feels like a prison
Her moral dilemmas and soul-searching add considerable heft to a film that eventually ventures into more conventional stalker territory. Transgression carries a crushing price tag in A Higher Law (Balaur), Octav Chelaru’s intense, carefully calibrated debut feature which follows a woman torn between freedom and faith as she strays from a suffocating marriage. Source: Transilvania International Film Festivalĭir/scr: Octav Chelaru.
