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Rare intimate documentary about Romanian filmmaker Lucian Pintilie - the director of (arguably) the best Romanian movie ever, “The Re-enactement“ (1970) - shooting his first film after the 1989 Revolution, “The Oak“ (1992), following a long period of work in exile. The soundtrack of the documentary contrapuntally uses audio fragments from his previous body of work (film and opera). “...being not just a “making of” but more than that. Like its title suggests - “a film in the film”- it was an opportunity for the birth of another creation (…) The crew, made up practically of one member – Gabriel Kosuth – did a forceful documentary about this. For weeks and weeks he recorded with such a sensibility Pintilie’s directorial work - his relationship with the actors and the painful, agonizing, passionate team work – that the spectator gets initiated almost unconsciously into the mystery of his creation.”
