THIS WEEK’S ROMANIAN MOVIE

Crossing Dates – feature film

Good-tempered triangles

„Crossing Dates” is the debut feature of Anca Damian, known in the meantime for other films such as „Crulic – The Path to Beyond”, „Magic Mountain” and the recent „Perfectly Healthy”. The film is part of the category of Romanian films that touch the delicate subject of meetings between people, which are far from being simple meetings: they are abyssal interactions, between expectations, histories and personal imagery.

Plot summary: Each day of our lives brings us new encounters with our fellow-people: our paths cross, we see each other, and speak or don’t speak to one other. Then we walk away for the next encounter. Both chance and intention play a part in these encounters, and the consequences may remain as foot prints on the paths of our lives. The movie mingles 3 separate stories which take place over two days. The characters’ paths intersect, and they affect each other unintentionally. The three stories are united not only by the characters but also by re-readings of the same theme in different registers.