Uppercase Print (2020)

• Year: 2020
• Released: 10 Nov 2021
• Country: Romania
• Adwords: 4 wins & 13 nominations
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10452766/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/uppercase_print
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/uppercase-print
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: Romanian
• MPA Rating: N/A
• Genre: Documentary, Drama, History
• Runtime: 128 min
• Writer: Gianina Carbunariu, Radu Jude
• Director: Radu Jude
• Cast: Serban Lazarovici, Bogdan Zamfir, Ioana Iacob
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	6.6/10
	80/100
	83% – Critics

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A fairly balanced film.

Radu Jude, the director, accepts in this film a difficult chalenge: to adopt a play whithout making it too stagy. He accomplishes to find a balance between theatre and cinema. And, although the sets are claearly theatrical and the archive footage’s relation to the action is at best obscure ( sometimes even opaque ), the story is very interesting and it is well acted ( I don’t know if Brecht’s distancing effect is used on purpose. If yes, then it is superbly acted. ). In others words it is like a breeze for someone used to mainstream films.

If you’re into TV theater

I don’t get why Radu Jude doesn’t make straight documentaries. He seems passionate about historical subjects and themes, and yet he chooses to translate them into the forms of fiction cinema. The results, as is the case here, are boring and non cinematic. Here, he uses a theater play stage as vehicle for his story, mixed with communist era news clips which apparently have nothing to do with the story. Just adding context, atmosphere, whatever. The result is tedious and non watchable if you’re into cinema. So either Jude likes the story and could have made a real movie on it, or he’s after the historical value of the story and documents and he could’ve made a documentary. He chose both, so he got neither. Way to go.

Is anyone manning the editing booth?

The story the movie is based on is true and moving. The play that the movie adopted (not adapted, adopted, as in integrated with) might be good as well. Where the movie went off into the weeds for me was when the director decided to cut frequently and without any meaningful transition from the play (actors reading from old security service reports) to an eclectic assortment of TV clips from the era. The period clips have very little to do with the story. They neither complement the story nor does the sequencing of clips tell a story of its own. They’re just filler, plain and simple. Big missed opportunity.