Three Exercises of Interpretation

Cristi Puiu
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Making Waves: New Romanian Cinema 2013

November 29 - December 3, 2013

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Inspired by the work of Russian philosopher Vladimir Solovyov, this trilogy focuses on a group of friends gathered for lunch and engaged in rich conversation covering life’s most complex moral topics.

DIRECTOR
Cristi Puiu
YEAR
2013
RUNTIME
157 minutes
START DATE
December 1, 2013

U.S. Premiere!

This trilogy (The Cat is On the Chair, The Mouse is Under the Table, and The Monkey is On the Branch) focuses on a group of friends gathered for lunch and engaged in rich conversation covering life’s most complex moral topics. It emerged from an acting workshop led by director Cristi Puiu (The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, 2005) in Toulouse and inspired by Russian philosopher Vladimir Solovyov’s treatise Three Conversations.

Three Exercises of Interpretation
Three Exercises of Interpretation
Three Exercises of Interpretation
Three Exercises of Interpretation
Three Exercises of Interpretation

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