Mrs. Buica

The Buica family flees communist Romania and gets to live the American Dream, but cannot escape the sins of the Balkan soul. Love, scandal, tragedy, and the breakup of parents’ marriage, under the eyes of a son who documents everything. When in 1998 some of the members of the Buică family return for a short time from America to their native country, Romania, Mrs. Buică playfully attacks her husband, making mean comments. Their son Eugene manages to capture the couple’s dysfunctionality as their marriage falls apart.

RO/US, 2023, 83 min.; en, ro / en sub / sk tit