2018 · drama · historical · satire
I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians
Directed by Radu Jude2h 18m2018
"I do not care if we go down in history as barbarians." These words, spoken in the Council of Ministers of the summer of 1941, started the ethnic cleansing on the Eastern Front. The film attempts to comment on this statement.
Our read: I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians (2018) reads as a sombre, measured, inventive drama · historical · satire entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, measured, measured drama / historical, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- measured
- intense
- bleak
- twisty
- signature
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