You can’t help but draw connections to present-day American foreign policy through the tale unfolding in California Dreamin’, winner of Un Certain Regard at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival and “one of the best films about how America is perceived abroad ever made” (Washington Post).
In this true story from the 1990s, a Romanian bureaucrat delays an American NATO train on its way to Kosovo as a way to avenge the arrogance and neglect he feels the United States displayed toward Romanians after World War II. The film was in postproduction in August 2006 when the director, Cristian Nemescu, and his sound editor were killed in a car accident. 2007, 35mm, in Romanian and English with English subtitles, 155 minutes.
