Romanian Film "Boogie" Gets Award For Script At Hamptons International Film Festival

The award for the script, signed by Alexandru Baciu, Radu Muntean and Razvan Radulescu, was handed to "Shooting Star" Anamaria Marinca.

 

"I’ve once again been a good luck charm to the film I represent,” said Marinca, who also starred in Cannes awarded Romanian film “4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days” by director Cristian Mungiu.

 

On his official mini-holiday at the seaside, with his wife and his three-year old son, Bogdan Ciocazanu (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. Penescu, an agent with a touring agency, and Iordache, now a resident in Sweden, are wild and free and ready to party.

 

After dinner, which they take on the sea-view terrace of a hotel that brings back teenage memories, Boogie finds himself caught between family obligations and the temptation of a night out like in the good old days, when life seemed simple and beautiful.

 

Now, however, things have changed. The gaps between them have grown wider, and friendship can no longer be a relationship based on common tastes in women, drink and soccer teams.

 

That is why the three men's attempt of recalling their youth in the course of one night somewhat resembles that of an old rock band that, though dismantled long ago, now reunites for one last show.

 

Although the concert does have some of the old-days charm, people no longer feel part of the show, the drummer can't keep the rhythm and the lead singer has gone bald and loses his voice after the second song.

 

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 conjugal bed.

 

"It's good that we talked. These things have a way of piling up", the spouses say after a clarifying fight. The child then wakes up, and everything seems to go back to normal.

 

The Hamptons International Film Festival, now at its 16th edition, was founded to celebrate Independent film - long, short, fiction and documentary - and to introduce a unique and varied spectrum of international films and filmmakers to American audiences.