The Grammar of the New Romanian Cinema

In order to identify a common language of the new wave of Romanian directors and to find a definition of a “grammar” for the new Romanian moviemaking, we need to look for the paradigmatic codes of this type of cinema. Discussing the definitions given to this cinematographic phenomenon, remarkable by the multiple awards received in the last decade on film festivals, this paper identifies several traits which make the “new wave” in the Romanian cinema fundamentally a European Wave. If there is a new-new-wave in the Romanian cinema, this has a common style and aesthetics. The author is looking for the “grammatical” characteristics of several contemporary Romanian authors, offering a general description of its commonalities.