A dead baby, a runaway tiger, and a marriage rotting in Transylvania. Romanian cinema hits different.
31-year-old Vera is a vet in a small-town zoo veterinarian in Transylvania. After losing her new-born baby, she becomes obsessed with giving him the proper Eastern Orthodox burial rituals, spends more time at work and subsequently drifts apart from her husband, Toma. One day a tiger escapes from the zoo…
Acting
Moga's silent devastation—grief without theatricality.
Direction
Tănase lets dread accumulate like humidity.
Cinematography
Transylvania as liminal space between life and death.
Director
Andrei Tănase
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