Hooked (film)

	Hooked (film) ''Hooked'' or ''Picnic'' is a 2008 film by Adrian Sitaru, set in Romania (original name: ''Pescuit sportiv'', duration: 84 minutes). It is the story of a barbecue trip of a Romanian couple, which takes an unexpected turn when their car runs over a prostitute while driving through a forest near Bucharest. The incident throws a new light over the relationship of the two lovers, and shows how much change can come for human beings in a single day. Cast * Adrian Titieni - Mihai * Ioana Flora - Iubi * Maria Dinulescu - Ana-Violeta * Alexandru Georgescu - Van driver * Sorin Vasilescu - Gamekeeper * Nicodim Ungureanu - Ionut See also * Romanian New Wave The Romanian New Wave ( ro, Noul val românesc) is a Film genre, genre of Realism (arts)#Cinema, realist and often Minimalism#Minimalism in film, minimalist films made in Romania since the mid-aughts, starting with two award-winning shorts by two R ... External links Official website 2008 films Romanian drama films Films set in Rom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Adrian Sitaru Adrian Sitaru () is a Romanian director, producer and actor, born in 1971. He is the author of several short films, of which ''Valuri'' ("Waves", 2007), the most well-known, has received numerous prizes. Notably, he also worked with Costa Gavras in the making of Amen. (2002). His first feature film, ''Pescuit sportiv'' ("Hooked"), for which, besides being the director, he also wrote the script, has been screened in film festivals from Toronto, Palm Springs, Estoril and in the main competition of the 2009 ''Premiers Plans'' Festival in Angers, France. In 2010, his latest short film, ''Colivia'' ("The Cage") won the DAAD Short Film Award at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale The Berlin International Film Festival (german: Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin), usually called the Berlinale (), is a major international film festival held annually in Berlin, Germany. Founded in 1951 and originally run in June, the festi ...). Selected filmography * '' The Fixer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Adrian Titieni Adrian Titieni (; born 6 June 1963) is a Romanian actor. He appeared in more than fifty films since 1985. Selected filmography References External links * 1963 births Living people Romanian male film actors {{Romania-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Ioana Flora Ioana Flora (born 22 March 1975) is a Romanian actress. She appeared in more than twenty films since 2001. Selected filmography References External links * 1975 births Living people Romanian film actresses Romanian people of Serbian descent Serbian people of Romanian descent {{Romania-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Maria Dinulescu Maria Dinulescu (; born 2 May 1981 in Ploieşti) is a Romanian actress. Acting career Maria Dinulescu studied acting at the National University of Cinema and Drama in Bucharest, Romania. She came to international attention in 2003, when one of the first shorts she played in, "Traffic", won the Palme d'Or in Cannes. She came back to Cannes in 2007, as the lead female actress in the full-feature "California Dreamin' (endless)," the winner of the "Un Certain Regard" section. Her performance in this movie won her a few other awards including the Best Actress Prize at BIAF Georgia and Arte Mare from France. Maria subsequently played the lead role in "Hooked", a film that had its world premiere at the 65th Venice film Festival. Her performance in "Hooked" was described as "bewitching" (Hollywood Reporter) and "bubbly (in a difficult role)" (Variety) and was rewarded with the Best Actress Prize at the Thessaloniki Film Festival and the Buenos Aires Film Festival. Of the 12 full-leng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, and Southeast Europe, Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Moldova to the east, and the Black Sea to the southeast. It has a predominantly Temperate climate, temperate-continental climate, and an area of , with a population of around 19 million. Romania is the List of European countries by area, twelfth-largest country in Europe and the List of European Union member states by population, sixth-most populous member state of the European Union. Its capital and largest city is Bucharest, followed by Iași, Cluj-Napoca, Timișoara, Constanța, Craiova, Brașov, and Galați. The Danube, Europe's second-longest river, rises in Germany's Black Forest and flows in a southeasterly direction for , before emptying into Romania's Danube Delta. The Carpathian Mountains, which cross Roma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Bucharest Bucharest ( , ; ro, București ) is the capital and largest city of Romania, as well as its cultural, industrial, and financial centre. It is located in the southeast of the country, on the banks of the Dâmbovița River, less than north of the Danube River and the Bulgarian border. Bucharest was first mentioned in documents in 1459. The city became the capital of Romania in 1862 and is the centre of Romanian media, culture, and art. Its architecture is a mix of historical (mostly Eclectic, but also Neoclassical and Art Nouveau), interbellum ( Bauhaus, Art Deco and Romanian Revival architecture), socialist era, and modern. In the period between the two World Wars, the city's elegant architecture and the sophistication of its elite earned Bucharest the nickname of 'Paris of the East' ( ro, Parisul Estului) or 'Little Paris' ( ro, Micul Paris). Although buildings and districts in the historic city centre were heavily damaged or destroyed by war, earthquakes, and even Nic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Romanian New Wave The Romanian New Wave ( ro, Noul val românesc) is a Film genre, genre of Realism (arts)#Cinema, realist and often Minimalism#Minimalism in film, minimalist films made in Romania since the mid-aughts, starting with two award-winning shorts by two Romanian directors, namely Cristi Puiu's ''Cigarettes and Coffee'', which won the Short Film Golden Bear at the 2004 Berlin International Film Festival, and Cătălin Mitulescu's ''Trafic (2004 film), Trafic'', which won the Short Film Palme d'Or at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival, Cannes Film Festival later that same year. Themes Aesthetically, Romanian New Wave films share an austere, Realism (arts)#Cinema, realist and often Minimalism#Minimalism in film, minimalist approach. Furthermore, black humour tends to feature prominently. While several of them are set in 1980s austerity policy in Romania, the late 1980s, near the end of Nicolae Ceaușescu's totalitarian rule over communist Romania, exploring themes of freedom and resilience (''4 M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	2008 Films The year 2008 involved many major film events. ''The Dark Knight'' was the year's highest-grossing film, while ''Slumdog Millionaire'' won the Academy Award for Best Picture (out of eight Academy Awards). Evaluation of the year 2008 has been widely considered to be a very significant year for cinema. The entertainment agency website IGN described 2008 as "one of the biggest years ever for movies." It stated, "2008 was the year when the comic book movie genre not only hits its zenith, but also gained critical respectability thanks to ''The Dark Knight''. Animated films also proved a huge draw for filmgoers, with Pixar's ''WALL-E'' becoming not only the highest grossing toon but also the most lauded. Things got off on the right foot with the monster movie madness of ''Cloverfield''. Marvel got down to business laying the groundwork for their superhero team-up ''The Avengers'' with the blockbuster hit ''Iron Man'' and their respectable attempt at rebooting ''The Incredible Hulk''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Romanian Drama Films Romanian may refer to: anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Romania Romanians, an ethnic group Romanian language, a Romance language Romanian dialects, variants of the Romanian language Romanian cuisine, traditional foods *Romanian folklore Romanian (stage), a stage in the Paratethys The Paratethys sea, Paratethys ocean, Paratethys realm or just Paratethys was a large shallow inland sea that stretched from the region north of the Alps over Central Europe to the Aral Sea in Central Asia. Paratethys was peculiar due to its pa ... stratigraphy of Central and Eastern Europe '' The Romanian'' newspaper '' The Romanian: Story of an Obsession'', a 2004 novel by Bruce Benderson * * {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]