Child's Pose
Romanian New Wave
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1h 52m
Leaving November 1
Directed by Peter Neter | 112 mins | 2013
Winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, "Child’s Pose" offers a scathing indictment of corruption in contemporary Romanian society in the tale of a wealthy mother willing to do anything in order to protect her wastrel son from the consequences of his involvement in a fatal car accident.
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