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Radu Jude’s follow-up to his arthouse hit Aferim! is set at a Romanian sanitarium on the Black Sea in 1937. There a young Jewish man suffering from spinal tuberculosis embraces life as much as he can while sick and in a body cast. He smokes and drinks; interacts with caretakers, other patients, and former patients; and even falls in love. Outside the hospital, society drifts toward anti-Semitism, Fascism, and war. From the semi-autobiographical book by Surrealist/modernist writer Max Blecher (1909-1938). “Brims with anarchic life.” –Film Comment. Adults only! Subtitles. DCP. 141 min.