''Boogie'' is a 2008 Romanian film written and directed by
Radu Muntean
Radu Muntean (; born 8 June 1971 in Bucharest) is a Romanian film director and screenwriter. He is a central figure of the Romanian New Wave. .
Plot
On his spring break at the
seaside, with his wife and his four-year-old son, Bogdan Ciocăzanu (a.k.a. Boogie) runs into his best friends from high-school at the precise date and time that reminds all of them of their most glorious drinking trips and sexual escapades of their younger days. Frustrated that, between his job and his family, time is no longer his to manage and play with, Boogie now takes his shock dosage of freedom and spends a night to tick off all the items on the map of his youth (drinking, games, flirting, prostitutes). In the morning, after the disillusionment of the remake he experiences with his former friends, he returns to his wife.
Cast
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Dragoş Bucur as Bogdan Ciocăzanu
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Anamaria Marinca
Anamaria Marinca (born 1 April 1978) is a Romanian actress. She made her screen debut with the Channel 4 film ''Sex Traffic'', for which she won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress. Marinca is also known for her performance in ...
as Smaranda Ciocăzanu
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Mimi Brănescu
Mimi Brănescu (; born 31 March 1974) is a Romanian actor. He appeared in more than twenty films since 2004.
Biography
Born in Lehliu, Călărași County, he studied at the Caragiale National University of Theatre and Film in Bucharest
Bu ...
as Penescu
* Adrian Vancica as Iordache
* Vlad Muntean as Adrian Ciocăzanu
* Geanina Varga as Roxana
* Maria Alexandra Birleanu as Waitress
* Renee Harbek as Herself
Release
The film premiered at the
2008 Cannes Film Festival
The 61st Annual Cannes Film Festival was held from 14 to 25 May 2008. The President of the Official Jury was American actor and director Sean Penn. Twenty two films from fourteen countries were selected to compete for the ''Palme d'Or''. The awards ...
and subsequently participated in the
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival ( cs, Mezinárodní filmový festival Karlovy Vary) is a film festival held annually in July in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic. The Karlovy Vary Festival is one of the oldest in the world and has become ...
.
See also
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Romanian New Wave
The Romanian New Wave ( ro, Noul val românesc) is a Film genre, genre of Realism (arts)#Cinema, realist and often Minimalism#Minimalism in film, minimalist films made in Romania since the mid-aughts, starting with two award-winning shorts by two R ...
References
External links
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2008 films
Films directed by Radu Muntean
Romanian comedy-drama films
2000s Romanian-language films
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