Too Late
Prea Târziu
Lucian Pintilié
In Romania in 1995, public prosecutor trainee Costa Dumitru leads the investigation into a suspicious death in a mining town in the Jiu valley, the "Valley of Tears". When he inspects the tunnels, Costa discovers the pitiful and dangerous working conditions. He complains to the mine's management, but learns that his complaints leave the management indifferent and irritate the miners, who fear that his revelations will lead to the mine's being shut down...
With : Razvan Vasilescu, Cécilia Barbora, Victor Rebengiuc, Dorel Visan
Screenplay : Lucian Pintillié, Rasvan Popescu d'après sa nouvelle
Image : Calin Ghibu
Music : Beethoven, Schubert et improvisations au violoncelle par Adrian Mantu
Screenplay : Lucian Pintillié, Rasvan Popescu d'après sa nouvelle
Image : Calin Ghibu
Music : Beethoven, Schubert et improvisations au violoncelle par Adrian Mantu
Production : MK2 Productions, La Sept Cinéma, Ministère de la Culture Roumaine
Distribution: MK2
Distribution: MK2
"Personally, I know no temptation more diabolical than the apparently innocent recommendation to ‘forget everything'. Forgiveness is never born out of the abolition of memory. (...) In a way, Reconstruction, The Oak (presented in Cannes in 1992) and Too Late constitute the trilogy of my lost hope. Reconstruction, in 1969, was nourished by my last hopes to see a more humanistic communism. With Too Late, I couldn't believe in it anymore (...). Amidst inhumane conditions, the miners continue to accomplish a job that everyone, including the miners themselves, knows has become useless. It is a situation that contributes to their being at the forefront of reactions. The pretext of a detective story that underlies the film draws in this way from history" (L. Pintillié).