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Peter Labuza

When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism
By Peter Labuza | January 8, 2015

Porumboiu has made another deadpan comedy, but his subject is now himself. When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism would be best described as a self-reflexive investigation into its own aesthetics.

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