Coming soon.The debut feature from Cristi Puiu (director of The Death of Mr. Lazarescu) is an unnerving, verite-style thriller that reveals the lives of a group of young people living in a country still recovering from years of misrule and neglect.
Seeking a way to finance his own independence Ovidiu agrees to courier a bag of what appear to be pharmaceutical medicines from to Bucharest. Taking his friend Vali and his new girlfriend, Betty along for the ride, their initial high spirits are shattered when a pursuing red jeep attempts to drive them off the road.
They have no idea who's in the jeep or what they want, but a simple trip to Bucharest has suddenly become a life-threatening ordeal...
Part crime thriller, part comedy, part chase movie, part familial drama — the conscious conflation of genres in this dryly funny, political, but deceptively simple road movie quietly reveals the state of contemporary Romanian life.
Second Run present the film fom a brand new HD restoration and also includes Christi Puiu's award-winning 2004 short film Cigarettes and Coffee (Un cartuș de Kent și un pachet de cafea).
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DVD only, coming May 30 according to Amazon.
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Cristi Puiu's latest film Sieranevada just confirmed as 'In Competition' at this year Cannes Film Festival.
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Here is the full New York Times review from which Second Run have taken a quote.
It's good to see Cristi Puiu's first film finally getting a U.K. outing. It looks as if the thriller-style elements bubbling underneath Mr Lazarescu and Aurora might be more prominent here so it will be interesting to compare it to his later work.
Great cover too if the Amazon listing is correct.
It's good to see Cristi Puiu's first film finally getting a U.K. outing. It looks as if the thriller-style elements bubbling underneath Mr Lazarescu and Aurora might be more prominent here so it will be interesting to compare it to his later work.
Great cover too if the Amazon listing is correct.
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That's a very nice cover, sums the film up well. I've had the Romanian disc for years (and Cigarettes and Coffee on another Romanian DVD) but I'm almost tempted for the essay alone - plus this is a new HD source.
Any Puiu on disc is good news, can't wait for his new film at Cannes.
Any Puiu on disc is good news, can't wait for his new film at Cannes.
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David Jenkins reviews Cristi Puiu's STUFF AND DOUGH in the latest Little White Lies magazine"STUFF AND DOUGH had already strongly hinted at his capabilities as an unblinking social observer, a darkly humorous satirist, and a showman capable of whipping up scenes of frazzled intensity from nothing"
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Full details of our STUFF AND DOUGH release now up at our website
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Ian Schultz reviews STUFF AND DOUGH at Psychotronic Cinema
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Ben Nicolson at CineVue on Puiu's STUFF AND DOUGH"A blend of a buddy road movie and Spielberg's Duel shot a typically rough-and-ready social realist style and tinged with black humour at the grim realities of life... manages to be both exhilarating and mundane; funny and chilling; bleak and hopeful"
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4-star review by Patrick Gamble in The Skinny"A Hitchcockian road movie about life in post-Ceaușescu Romania... a slender and restrained film, yet this austerity masks a finely tuned script about the difficulties of navigating between corruption and survival when individual aspiration is put above all else"
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'10 essential Romanian directors' - and featuring Cristi Puiu (naturally) - as selected by Michael Brooke as an introduction to the BFI Southbank's terrific 'Revolution in Realism: The New Romanian Cinema' season.
Puiu's STUFF AND DOUGH (plus his 2004 short CIGARETTES AND COFFEE) screens on Sunday June 12th, and Monday June 13th followed by Cristi Puiu in conversation.
Puiu's STUFF AND DOUGH (plus his 2004 short CIGARETTES AND COFFEE) screens on Sunday June 12th, and Monday June 13th followed by Cristi Puiu in conversation.
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Barry Didcock at Herald Scotland on STUFF AND DOUGH"A vigorous and engaging debut"
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Colin Dibben at Close-Up Film"Watching Stuff and Dough I kept on thinking of Spielberg’s Duel and Monte Hellman’s Two Lane Blacktop – there’s something about the deadzone tone of the latter film here. Which in my opinion makes this a must see."
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Clydefro Jones at Digital Fix"An engrossing start to the Romanian New Wave is given all of the care and attention we've come to expect from the mighty Second Run label"
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James Oliver at MovieMail"An excellent presentation of this auspicious – and engrossing – debut"
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Mondo Digital"Stuff and Dough subverts expectations by finding tension and unease in the mundane... filled with a muted by sly wit and a curiosity about human nature.
The director-approved HD transfer looks about as pristine as SD PAL video will allow"
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Trevor Johnston reviews in the latest Sight & Sound"A hugely impressive first feature - great to have it available... An impeccable transfer"
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Cristi Puiu's latest, brilliant, work SIERANEVADA gets its UK premiere at this year's London Film Festival
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A great early work by Puiu that, in similar manner to The Daytrippers, makes a virtue of its lack of resources by keeping things focussed on a car and its inhabitants. Puiu’s characters are a lot more annoying, and their activities have a low-level genre buzz that’s surprisingly effective considering that he couldn’t afford any major set pieces. There are a couple of smart stings in the tail of the tale that are not hard to guess but are skillfully executed and impart an additional nasty gravity to the rambling narrative.
(Has anybody released an affordable English-subbed Sieranevada yet?)
(Has anybody released an affordable English-subbed Sieranevada yet?)