The Stone Wedding

– Drawing more on the heightened realism of indigenous folk ritual and storytelling traditions than on..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
8.00 / 10
Duration:
One Hour and 30 Minutes
Release Year:
1973
Original Name:
Nunta de piatra
The Stone Wedding (1973) - Also known as Nunta de piatra

Drawing more on the heightened realism of indigenous folk ritual and storytelling traditions than on the Socialist Realist intentions of the state, this almost wordless cine-poem, operating with the most slender of plots but the oldest of narratives, is an often compelling experience. A listless girl is to be married, lovelessly, into the conventional hierarchy of a Romanian town, squatting in a bare, out-of-time landscape. Her mother makes a hard living gathering and breaking rocks, and is soon forced to sell the essential mule for a wedding dress. Come the day, and the attentions of a nomadic musician capture the birch girl's eyes and heart. Cinematic kin to Paradjanov, Peleshyan and, perhaps most closely, the wonderful Georgian film Pirosmani, Stone Wedding is imbued with the stillness of deep time and deploys the keenest of gazes in tableaux that soon lift from mere attention into Morandi-esque focus.

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Release Date:

22 Aug 1974

Language:

Romanian

Director:

Dan Pita, Mircea Veroiu

Writer:

Ion Agârbiceanu (stories), Dan Pita (segment), Mircea Veroiu (segment)

Main Actors:

Leopoldina Balanuta, Eliza Petrachescu, Nina Doniga, Adrian Georgescu

Plot:

Two bleak stories about absent love. In the first, a widow is working hard in a desperate attempt to save her dying daughter. The second tells the story of two wandering singers who kidnap a bride from her wedding.

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
8.0/10