12:08 Bucharest (2007) by Corneliu Porumboiu.
“I want to point the very caustic, very funny, and also very dark, 12:08 Bucharest. The TV show with the cameraman who doesn’t manage to frame the faces, the people, and the film which adopts his point of view while people are trying to find out if the revolution started before or after Caucescu’s death, is an incredible moment of political cinema.”

Synopsis : December 22. It’s been sixteen years since the Revolution and Christmas is approaching. Pisconi, an old retiree, is preparing to spend another lonely Christmas. Manescu, a history teacher, doesn’t want to lose his entire salary to pay his debts. Jederescu, the owner of the local TV station, doesn’t seem very interested in vacation. With Piscoci and Manescu’s help, he wants to find an answer to a sixteen-year-old question: “Did a revolution really take place in their city”?

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Famous movie buff well known for his love of classical American cinema, Bertrand Tavernier stated out as a filmmaker in 1974 with The Clockmaker of St. Paul. He since built a fascinating filmography marked with commitment and a love for history from Let Joy Reign Supreme, Clean Slate, ‘Round Midnight, to Safe Conduct and Holy Lola. A fantastic new print of his “American Friends” book of interviews has just been released and his last film In the Electric Mist, shot in the United States with Tommy Lee Jones and John Goodman, will be released in France on april the 15th.