Monica Lazurean & Andrei Gorgan: My Vote
Romania. Countryside. Village name Grojdibodu. Main character, the mayor of the village, Nitulescu Tudorel. Theme: Election is coming up, the mayor seeks to be elected for his third term. Focus on him and his campaign.
Who cares? Well, you care because it is a good film, well done, it can create atmosphere and make us discover the similarities that are quite as many as the differences. Glimpses of life, a charismatic chain-smoking mayor, who speaks well and makes sure that people, who can not come on their own are being picked up and taken to the voting booths, where many old people insist on entering the same booth as a couple, which is not allowed… I don’t care, is a reaction often heard. The mayor is a popular man, who of course is also the coach for the local football team, and dance and drink with his people. Cable television, electricity and a cultural house is wanted by the population, and the social subvention from the state must come before the election. And it does.
A Mini-The-War-Room (Pennebaker’s film on the Clinton-campaign) but as that one fine observational cinema of a small society, where the mayor needs 940 votes to be elected. He made it.
Romania, 2010, 42 mins
