Synopsis
In the wilderness of the Bucharest Delta, nine children and their parents lived in perfect harmony with nature for 20 years–until they are chased out and forced to adapt to life in the big city.
2020 ‘Acasă’ Directed by Radu Ciorniciuc
In the wilderness of the Bucharest Delta, nine children and their parents lived in perfect harmony with nature for 20 years–until they are chased out and forced to adapt to life in the big city.
Acâş, můj domov, Acasa – kadotettujen paratiisi
☆"I knew this would happen."☆
Film Independent advance screener.
Heartfelt and beautiful, Radu Ciorniciuc's Acasă, My Home -- Special Jury Award for Cinematography at Sundance -- follows the eleven members of the Enache family of Romania. This Roma (don't call them or anyone "gypsies") clan has spent years on their own in an overgrown marsh area, but when their living space is transformed by local officials they must find new lodging in the capital of Bucharest.
Formerly a journalist, Ciorniciuc has a debut film of cinéma vérité here that flows much like his previous work, without judgement and without pretense, observing and documenting a family who has been cutting themselves from civilization for twenty years. For nearly that entire time,…
The debut documentary from investigative journalist Radu Ciorniciuc appears as an amalgamation between written drama and factual film. It observes a rural Romanian couple in the Bucharest Delta backcountry and their nine children, the Enache family, who have been dwelling in a shack in an abandoned water reservoir while living in symmetry with nature for two decades. They become hounded out of the environment after the authorities choose to reclaim the region for improvement by turning it into a national park.
Ciorniciuc stays connected with being dedicated to presenting a well balanced, even-handed apprehension of various views on the situation. He's immeasurably more interested in advancing on the circumstances with a poetic methodology than endeavouring to convey any noticeable overriding…
Vegan alert:
-Reference to fishery and catching fish
-Man grabs pig and it squeals because they are about to slaughter it
ACASA, MY HOME 011921:
calm observational documentary centered on a remote family unit forced into relocation and readmission into a society they're trying to leave behind. it doesn't disparage a different way of life, and handles the complexities of the situation well. gorgeous cinematography.
Some days I think if my entire cinematic diet was reduced to cinema vérité and psychedelic horror, I'd be ok with that. A terrific observational doc, beautifully shot and with extraordinary access over years in a truly unusual situation that constantly upends your sympathies.
Diiming-imingi kehidupan lbh baik dlm masyarakat modern, nyatanya justru merampas kenyamanan keluarga yg sdh hidup hmpir 20thn bersanding dgn alam. ACASA, MY HOME jd potret penuh arti menaknai 'rumah' & proses adaptasi manusia.
Keluarga Enache, hampir dua dekade bertempat tinggal di sebuah kawasan ekosistem hutan terbuka, Bucharest Delta. Namun pemerintah mengklaim tempat tsb dijadikan aset kota sehingga mau tak mau mereka meninggalkan 'rumah'.
Berdampingan dgn masyarakat di tengah kota, mendapat hunian baru dari pemerintah nyatanya tak seketika memberikan senyum baru pd mereka.
Sulitnya beradaptasi, diskriminasi, dan minimnya arahan dari pihak berwenang membuat keluarga ini kebingungan hingga muncul byk perdebatan.
Padahal di awal, terlihat sekali tawa mereka berhamburan hanya dgn berlarian di tengah alang-alang juga berenang sambil berburu ikan utk makan malam.…
Acasă, My Home is definitely an eye-opening and thought-provoking documentary about gentrification and its effect on the Enache family as they are whisked away from their peaceful life in nature and forced to adjust to the chaos of the city.
the way the docu just follows them around as we get glimpses of their life before and after the transition is so subtle and raw. the harmonious & simple life that they had in their home and the freedom to hunt, fish and do whatever you want versus the harsh adjustments of city life from the home that they soon live in, the education of the children and the society's expectations of them. the focus also shifts from Gica who decided…
From its earliest images, ACASĂ, MY HOME tells you how deeply it cares about the Enache family’s perspective. Despite Romanian government officials writing off the Bucharest delta as “abandoned,” Gică Enache has lived there for 18 years. The state decrees that the Enaches’ small homemade shack is dirty, unsafe, no place to raise children. But Gică, his wife Niculina, and their nine sons and daughters disagree.
First-time director Radu Ciorniciuc has already mastered visual empathy. He never shoves cameras in the family’s faces to demand they defend their lifestyle. For much of the film, we hardly see their faces at all. Low-angle shots focus on the flailing feet, shoulders, and elbows of children at play. Serious father-son conversations are shot…
We live in a society x5
Beautiful edit and cinematography and rly fantastic story 🫀💚 1 of the best docs of year tbh
Surreal moment when the doc subject came out for the Q&A at the end. A couple years ago, he was fishing with his hands to feed his family of 12 and selling empty water bottles for a few cents. Now, a star at Sundance.
Amazing to see how documentary can change lives for good.
stunning and dynamic in so many ways. gentrification shown in its most raw and honest form through a family that refuses to believe in its power. this will stay with me.
i loved this film... it was so beautiful seeing some things but also so sad certain parts of it too
but it is unbelievable that they have captured these parts of the film, so nice
A fascinating documentary that contains some of the most memorable editing and cinematography I’ve seen this year, Acasă, My Home establishes the chief plight of it’s protagonists from an early opening overhead drone shot: a vast, undeveloped wetland area located in the Bucharest delta just outside of the Romanian capital; and just north of it, the sprawling metropolis of the city itself, slowly expanding outwards like an industrialized amoeba absorbing everything in it’s path. Since the communist era of Ceaușescu’s dictatorship, the Lake Văcărești zone was declared a protected nature area and made a park by the government; director Radu Ciorniciuc follows a Roma family of 9 children and their parents who’ve lived in the park for nearly 20 years, in harmony…
A Bukarest belterületén lévő lápvidéken élő család beköltöztetése a panelba gyakran nem több, mint egy élőlánc Facebook live a Mércén, csak ezt dokumentumfilmnek hívják. Jól megmutat dolgokat, ahogy zajlik ez a család, így egyszerűen folyik, de közben elfelejt kommentálni. Nyilván tudatosan nincs semmilyen narráció, csak ez egy pon után már inkább idegesítő.
Sometimes I forgot this was real as the characters were bathed in golden light.
This won the Cinematography Award in World Cinema Documentary at Sundance 2020, and the best shot is near the beginning in the marsh with Vali Enache, zooming out with an impressive drone shot to show a larger area of the Vacaresti Park in Romania where the movie takes place. Director Radu Ciorniciuc chronicles four years in the life of the Enache family that lived in harmony with nature in the closed and abandoned area of the park for 20 years before the land was turned into a state park and the family was evicted to live on social assistance. The movie contrasts the freedom of a life in nature without outside influences against the advantages of health care and learning to read and write. The film ends with Vali alone on a boat in the same marsh, coming back full circle, but I was surprised that there was no "where are they now?" updates at the end of the film.
A very in depth look at parents who decide to live outside the typical urban structure, and choose not to work but still want to have 9 kids. 2 shacks (one for sleeping and one for hiding from social workers) out of 5
Slice of life documentary sliced down the middle. Lumbers forward from one chapter to the next as though merely transitioning from shot to reverse shot. The impact of these changes on these people, the prejudices and conventions that define their lives, all of this is rich material eloquently touched upon... and then left. The audience must fill in the gaps, as we're all capable of doing, though each time Ciorniciuc probes deeper in a new direction, he uncovers new perspectives that only further augment the potency and complexity of his observations. Either he's chanced upon a most remarkable band of subjects or he's remarkably talented at eliciting open, detailed sincerity; possibly both and, if so, I'll take a pop at…
REVIEW by Lindsay Pugh
As demands for productivity and capital increase, it takes guts to opt out of the game and learn to find self-worth elsewhere. Modern life can be cruel and relentless, full of too much time indoors at work and not enough with nature or loved ones. It’s not surprising to me that Gica, the patriarch of the Enache family featured in Acasă, My Home, has decided that regimented city life is not for him. He prefers to reside in a small shack in the Văcărești Delta in the middle of Bucharest, living off the land in absolute poverty and answering to no one. While this choice might be suitable for a solitary man, the addition of nine…
This is what I want from movies! The movies released each year should be 20% Speed Racers and 80% Acasă, My Homes. I don't yet have the vocabulary to talk about docs very well. But also, with a movie like this, there's not much I want to say. It's a beautiful window. I mean I know to be critical of illusions of objectivity or whatever in docs. This is a finely-honed (immensely well-edited) film with a perspective (its one thudding moment - the person talking about caged birds dying in captivity over footage of the soon-to-be-evicted kids). But that perspective isn't much more than empathy and curiosity. It's certainly not intrusive. Its goal is to refine its subject into 90…
A wonderful film that makes you reflect on how you want to experience a post industrialist society.
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