Metronom

• Alexandru Belc
• 102 min
• Romania, France
• 2022
• Fiction

Love in repressive era in Cannes-awarded, visually and burningly topical drama about young people who fall out of favour with the Romanian security police.

Bucharest 1972. Ana hears that her boyfriend intends to leave the country to escape the Ceau?escu regime. Dejected, she goes to a party at their mutual friends’ house to meet him. There is dancing, drinking, and enjoyment of Western music from the banned radio station Metronom. In a moment of rebellious spirit, the partygoers decide to contact the station. Then the security police Securitate knock on the door. Metronom takes place fifty years ago, but its theme of the yearning for freedom in an authoritarian society echoes into our time. Razor-sharp and with an impressive feeling in the portrayal of the era, Alexandru Belc paints a chilling, current fresco that awarded him the prize for best director in the section Un Certain Regard at Cannes.

- Andreas Degerhammar

• Uppväxt
• Motstånd
• Epok
• Kärlek
• Politik
• Historia
• Omskakande