Boogie (2008 film)

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Boogie
Directed by Radu Muntean
Written byAlexandru Baciu
Radu Muntean
Răzvan Rădulescu
Starring Dragoş Bucur
Anamaria Marinca
Mimi Brănescu
CinematographyTudor Lucaciu
Edited byAndu Radu
Music byElectric Brother
Production
company
Multimedia Est
Release date
  • 19 September 2008 (2008-09-19)
Running time
102 minutes
CountryRomania
LanguageRomanian

Boogie is a 2008 Romanian film written and directed by Radu Muntean.

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Plot

On his spring break at the seaside, with his wife and his four-year-old son, Bogdan Ciocăzanu (a.k.a. Boogie) runs into his best friends from high-school at the precise date and time that reminds all of them of their most glorious drinking trips and sexual escapades of their younger days. Frustrated that, between his job and his family, time is no longer his to manage and play with, Boogie now takes his shock dosage of freedom and spends a night to tick off all the items on the map of his youth (drinking, games, flirting, prostitutes). In the morning, after the disillusionment of the remake he experiences with his former friends, he returns to his wife.

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Release

The film premiered at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival and subsequently participated in the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. [1] [2]

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References

  1. Brunette, Peter (16 May 2008). "Boogie". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
  2. "FILM. Filmele româneşti au succes la Oscarurile europene".