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    Corneliu Porumboiu

    Mar 25, 2020 3 minutes
    BY ANTOINE BOURGES

    here is a scene early in Corneliu Porumboiu’s (2013) in which the main character, a film director named Paul, sits in his bare kitchen, smoking a cigarette, caught in his thoughts. He seems slightly bothered, although like most Porumboiu leads his facial expression remains largely inscrutable throughout the film, only occasionally varying between neutral and mildly annoyed. After a moment, he takes a fork and presses it against his

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