’Tis the season for infidelity as a pair of husbands and fathers living double lives discover that duplicity is particularly devastating during the holidays. The roots of Lynne Ramsay’s woozy, richly impressionistic style are on display in her early short GASMAN, in which a father brings his children along to a Christmas gathering where not everything is as it seems. Then, as the holidays loom, a middle-aged man finds himself forced to choose between the stability of his family and the excitement of a relationship with a younger woman in Radu Muntean’s TUESDAY, AFTER CHRISTMAS, an emotionally layered anatomy of an affair from one of the leaders of the celebrated Romanian New Wave.
Directed by Lynne Ramsay • 1998 • United Kingdom
Starring James Ramsay, Lynne Ramsay Jr., Jackie Quinn
Lynne Ramsay displays her photographer’s eye for striking compositions in this woozily sensorial Christmastime snapshot of a fractured family, an early expression of the complicated parent-chil...
Directed by Radu Muntean • 2010 • Romania
Starring Mimi Branescu, Mirela Oprisor, Maria Popistasu
One of the central figures to emerge from the cinema of the Romanian New Wave, director Radu Muntean has created in TUESDAY, AFTER CHRISTMAS a tense, emotionally resonant drama about a middle-aged m...