I’ve always tried to keep the Films for the Weekend articles as relevant and current as possible. Being aware of the context we live in these days, the best thing is not to panic. If you are not a fan of self-isolation, I’ve prepared for you a list of 3 movies that can be watched at the cinema. However, if you do prefer to stay at home and not go out, I’ve also included some movies to watch on TV or online.

TO BE WATCHED IN CINEMAS:

– Ivana the Terrible (dir. Ivana Mladenović; drama) – Serbian actress Ivana works and lives in Romania, but after a series of health problems she decides to spend the summer on the other bank of the Danube in Kladovo, her hometown, surrounded by family. She is asked by the mayor to be the image of the local music festival and she reluctantly accepts it. But after her eccentric musician friends arrive from Bucharest and her love life involving a much younger local boy becomes the town’s gossip, Ivana is on the verge of a nervous breakdown. 

The latest film by Ivana Mladenović can be watched throughout this weekend in several theaters in Bucharest.

– Legacy (dir. Dorian Boguță; thriller) – Anton, a famous pianist, is missing. The policeman who takes over the case gradually learns about the artist’s troubled destiny, his bizarre relationships and the decisions that triggered a whirl of surprising events. After the death of his parents, Anton had become obsessed with the happiness of his sister Ana, beyond the confines of brotherly love.

The debut feature film of director Dorian Boguță can be watched throughout this weekend in several theaters in Bucharest.

– 1917 (dir. Sam Mendes; drama, war) – April 6th, 1917. As a regiment assembles to wage war deep in enemy territory, two soldiers are assigned to race against time and deliver a message that will stop 1,600 men from walking straight into a deadly trap. The movie has won in 2020 three Academy Awards for Best Achievement in Cinematography, Best Achievement in Visual Effects and Best Achievement in Sound Mixing, and two Golden Globes for Best Motion Picture – Drama and Best Director – Motion Picture.

1917 can be watched on Friday, Saturday and Sunday in several cinemas in Bucharest.

FEELING LAZY? HERE’S WHAT YOU CAN WATCH AT HOME:

– 6.9 on the Richter Scale (dir. Nae Caranfil; comedy) – A humble Romanian actor in his 40’s, hardly surviving between a complicated part in a musical, a depressed wife, and the obsession of an imminent, devastating earthquake, becomes the victim of his manipulative father.

The film can be watched on Saturday, March 14 on TVR 3 at 11:00 pm.

– Green Book (dir. Peter Farrelly; biography) – It’s the true story of an unlikely friendship between an African American pianist and an Italian American bouncer who is hired by the first one as a driver and personal assistant. Where does it take place? In the 60’s America, when racism and prejudice were still very common.

Green Book can be watched on Saturday, March 14 (from 6:25 pm) and on Sunday, March 15 (from 11:30 am) on HBO 2.

– Hugo (dir. Martin Scorsese; fantastic) – Hugo is an orphan boy living in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. He learned to fix clocks and other gadgets from his father and uncle which he puts to use keeping the train station clocks running. The only thing that he has left that connects him to his dead father is an automaton (mechanical man) that doesn’t work without a special key. Hugo needs to find the key to unlock the secret he believes it contains.

You can find what happens next on Sunday, March 15 from 11:45 am on Film Now.

Romina Banu

Photographer and editor; she co-founded Dissolved Magazine together with Melissa. For Films in Frame she gathers film and TV series recommendations for lazy weekends and she writes about interesting projects from the film industry. Other than that, she likes traveling, chilling with her cats and sleeping.