THINGS WE SAID TODAY
France, Romania | 2024 | 85 min | bn/col.
What if waiting for the Beatles was the essence of Beatlemania more than the Beatles themselves? This is Andrew Ujică’s assumption in making Things We Said Today, an object halfway between documentary and fiction, that revolves around the Fab Four even though it does not feature any of their songs. All began in New York in 1965, when John Lennon & Co. landed for a gig at the Shea Stadium: a breath of fresh air in a world in transition, still dominated by optimism and the capacity of dreaming in spite of the wounds caused by recent events, such as the murder of Kennedy. Ujică reevokes that moment reworking different sources and reconstructing a fictive, impressionist narrative, a sort of ghost story aimed at capturing less the performance than the zeitgeist – just like Kowalski dealing with the dissolution of Sex Pistols, or Siodmak, Ulmer, and Wilder depicting a city in Menschen am Sonntag. The title’s acronym, TWST, suggests the actual twist under way, both in concrete terms – the dance – and figuratively – because nothing will ever be like before. (e.s.)
Local Time
- Timezone: America/New_York
- Date: 06 Nov 2024
- Time: 15:30
Location
- Cinema La Compagnia - Via Camillo Cavour, 50/R, 50121 Florence
Organizer
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Andrej Ujica
Andrei Ujică (Timișoara, 1951), with a background in literature, decides in 1990 to devote himself to cinema and creates Videograms of a Revolution (1992), which becomes a landmark film on the relationship between political power and the media at the end of the Cold War. Out of the Present (1995), one of the most recognized non- fictional films of the 90’s, was presented in competition at the 36th Festival dei Popoli. The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceaușescu (2010) completes the trilogy dedicated to the fall of Communism. Andrei Ujică was a member of the International Jury of the 61st Festival of Popoli.
