Nae Caranfil

Nae Caranfil Romanian pronunciation ˈnae karanˈfil also Nicolae Caranfil born 7 September 1960 is a Romanian film director and screenwriter Born in Bucharest Nae Caranfil is the son of Romanian film historian and critic Tudor Caranfil He graduated in 1984 from the Caragiale Academy of Theatrical Arts and Cinematography UNATC in Bucharest where he has also taught as a professor In the beginning of his career he directed only short films Venice in September 1983 Thirty Years of Insomnia 1984 and Backstage 1988 Caranfil made his feature film debut with E Pericoloso Sporgersi 1993 and continued with road movie comedy Asfalt tango starring Charlotte Rampling 1996 and with Dolce far niente 1998 His movie Filantropica 2002 was a critical success and increased Caranfils popularity Some consider Nae Caranfil to be the best Romanian director of the 1990s Nae Caranfil wrote the screenplay for all his movies and worked on the music for the first two of them E Pericoloso Sporgersi and Asfalttango In 2011 Caranfil began production on the Englishlanguage feature film Closer to the Moon An early version of the script entitled Alice în Țara Tovarășilor Alice in the Land of Comrades won a grant of 576600 from the National Centre of Cinema in 2007 The story is based on the 1959 bank robbery in Communist Romania for which a group known as the Ioanid Gang were convicted and sentenced to death As they awaited execution the prisoners were forced to film a reenactment of their crime Closer to the Moon stars Mark Strong Vera Farmiga Harry Lloyd Joe Armstrong Christian McKay Tim Plester Anton Lesser and Allan Corduner Filming took place in Bucharest in the autumn of 2011 Closer to the Moon premiered at the Making Waves New Romanian Cinema festival at Lincoln Center on 29 November 2013 Variety called the film a surprisingly entertaining black comedy