Review: 'I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians' interrogates the past
The title of "I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians," Radu Jude's explosively eloquent and morally galvanizing sixth feature, is a quotation from the words of Ion Antonescu, the 1940s Romanian marshal who steered his country into an alliance with Nazi Germany. The horrors of Antonescu's anti-Semitic regime, which led to the killings of an estimated 380,000 Romanian Jews, are among the subjects that Mariana Marin (a superb Ioana Iacob), a present-day theater director, plans to confront in an upcoming government-funded historical pageant.
She is mounting a stylized reenactment of the 1941 Odessa massacre, when Romanian and German troops occupied that city and
