Scarred Hearts
New York Jewish Film Festival 2017
January 11 - 24, 2017
Set in 1937, Scarred Hearts, inspired by Romanian author Max Blecher’s novel, centers on a young intellectual in a sanatorium on the Black Sea coast. Despite his physical condition, Emmanuel encourages his fellow patients to live life fully, listen to jazz, and throw the occasional drunken party. Meanwhile, outside the sanatorium walls, fascism is on the rise.
Set in 1937, Scarred Hearts, inspired by Romanian author Max Blecher’s novel, centers on Emanuel, a young intellectual with a penchant for poetry who spends his days at a sanatorium on the Black Sea coast, suffering from bone tuberculosis. Despite his physical condition, Emanuel falls in love, quotes literature, and encourages his fellow patients to live life fully, which includes listening to jazz and throwing the occasional drunken party. Meanwhile, outside the sanatorium walls, fascism is on the rise. Director Radu Jude’s richly detailed camerawork—shot on 35mm film in the full-screen, square Academy ratio—provides a master class in mise-en-scène.
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