The Discerning Voice Of A True Auteur Analysis
Mungiu. The discerning voice of a true auteur
1.Introduction
“Only great minds can afford a simple style.” (Stendhal). “Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn”. (Orson Welles). “Style is an easy way of saying complicated things”. (Jean Cocteau). The greatest artists have all expressed their opinion about style as distinctiveness and individuality in art and have regarded the personality of the artist as the main criterion of value. According to their definitions style is a metaphorical signature involving the characteristic symbolic functioning of an artwork .
In the mid-50s the French publication Cahiers du Cinema vastly propagated the auteur theory, a view that underlined the primacy of the director in …show more content…
Moreover, the distinguished education received inside his family, the deep religious faith and the more controversial communist period must have had additional influence on his forthcoming style, fostering proclivity towards a keener examination of those ages.
His father - a renowned doctor, professor at the Medical and Pharmacological University, his mother - a professor of Romanian Language and Literature and finally his sister - a psychiatrist, also a notorious politologist and civil activist, they all nurtured his creativity from a more humanistic side. A voracious reader and talker, Cristian was more drawn into literature, publishing his first prose at the age of 16 and continuing his prolific activity as a journalist for the local newspapers as well as for the most prestigious and refined student magazine -‘ The Student …show more content…
An official Cannes Film Festival selector fortuitously watched them, and two years later, when Mungiu announced his first feature film, “Occident”, he would be immediately invited to the “Quinzaine des Réalisateurs” at Cannes Film Festival. Occident enjoyed immediate critical success, winning successive awards and being highlighted in Director’s Fortnight in 2002 at Cannes. The film appealed greatly to a lot of tastes. Just one more tread missing from the majestic Palme
1.Introduction
“Only great minds can afford a simple style.” (Stendhal). “Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn”. (Orson Welles). “Style is an easy way of saying complicated things”. (Jean Cocteau). The greatest artists have all expressed their opinion about style as distinctiveness and individuality in art and have regarded the personality of the artist as the main criterion of value. According to their definitions style is a metaphorical signature involving the characteristic symbolic functioning of an artwork .
In the mid-50s the French publication Cahiers du Cinema vastly propagated the auteur theory, a view that underlined the primacy of the director in …show more content…
Moreover, the distinguished education received inside his family, the deep religious faith and the more controversial communist period must have had additional influence on his forthcoming style, fostering proclivity towards a keener examination of those ages.
His father - a renowned doctor, professor at the Medical and Pharmacological University, his mother - a professor of Romanian Language and Literature and finally his sister - a psychiatrist, also a notorious politologist and civil activist, they all nurtured his creativity from a more humanistic side. A voracious reader and talker, Cristian was more drawn into literature, publishing his first prose at the age of 16 and continuing his prolific activity as a journalist for the local newspapers as well as for the most prestigious and refined student magazine -‘ The Student …show more content…
An official Cannes Film Festival selector fortuitously watched them, and two years later, when Mungiu announced his first feature film, “Occident”, he would be immediately invited to the “Quinzaine des Réalisateurs” at Cannes Film Festival. Occident enjoyed immediate critical success, winning successive awards and being highlighted in Director’s Fortnight in 2002 at Cannes. The film appealed greatly to a lot of tastes. Just one more tread missing from the majestic Palme