The Limits of Film within the Limits of Theatre, in Two Examples.Spectacular identities from the Communist and present era

Using conventional procedures involves, regardless of the art form, knowing their distinctive elements, how the particularities of that art form works in its ideal parameters – can’t play a song on a brush – and, most importantly, knowing where the limit is between the experiment and the conventional product. The latter has no negative connotation – on the contrary, I believe we are sorely lacking well-made conventional products (in both theatre and film), created not necessarily after a recipe (which could be interpreted as commercially-oriented), but at least with a coherent slalom through style and aesthetics. Still, it is the experiment (and most of all the cross-disciplinary experiment) that gave birth to the arts we are discussing (theatre and film), discovering new forms of expression. In this piece, we will discuss the identities of Radu Jude and Lucian Pintilie, in their form of cinema expression in which they use all the elements specific to theatre, from the conventionality of the space to the present indication, from the formal props to the intent lighting, from the melding of specific technical elements to the spectacular editing.