Looking for the Truth in Lies – With What Cost?
Looking for the Truth in Lies – With What Cost?

Summary/Abstract: At the core of the New Romanian Cinema lies an apparently simple contradiction: mise-en-scène promises access to truth, to life, to reality, to an unembellished fragment of the world, and yet this promise is constructed through profoundly artificial means. From here emerges the paradox and contradiction that this study seeks to examine. The actor is not the person being portrayed, the set is not the “real” place, light is controlled, dialogue is written in advance, editing reorganizes time, and sound completes or corrects what the image alone cannot convey. Even so, the spectator must be persuaded to believe that the New Romanian Cinema can reach a truth that other arts, and implicitly other cinematic movements, attain far more difficultly. From this emerges the central question of the present study: “If film tells the truth through lies, what is the cost of this operation?”

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