"I Do Not Care If We Go Down In History As Barbarians"

A thoughtful meditation on a tough subject. Plus, the movie has a little bit more humor than I thought it would have, which I appreciated.

Definitely recommend it!

I had mu eye on this for some time. I finally picked it up with the slipcover on daily special during the last sale. Glad to own it.

I haven't watched it yet. It's a blind buy. I have another of Radu Jude's films and another on the way shortly.

Approach looks artwork

The hateful barbarism of the Odessa massacre giving way decades later to the joyful barbarism of treating such an atrocity as public theater.

A well-executed and angry farce by Jude but the arguments between Mariana, her cast, and the representative hit so close to home after all the similar arguments I've heard in the past decade—confronting the sins of the nation is anti-[insert nation here], "Never again!", whataboutism, treating genocide death counts as contest, etc. —that laughter was slim from me. And Mariana halfheartedly skimming through the book on Herero at the end simply yet effectively sums up the common attitude of apathy for atrocities occurring countries or whole oceans away when meaningfully confronting her own country's ****** history is clearly still a problem.