TWST - Things We Said Today

“Someday, when we’re dreaming / Deep in love, not a lot to say / Then we will remember / Things we said today.” Based on these lyrics by The Beatles from the song that gives the film its name, and taking their concert at Shea Stadium in New York in 1965 as a jumping off point, Andrei Ujică’s new masterpiece is so many things at once: an archive film, a reverie, an impossible dream, a visual poem, a political portrait and a journey into shared adolescent emotion that also locates the innocence of a country about to explode. Martin Luther King was still alive, the Vietnam War was not yet a bleeding wound in the heart of the country, and The Beatles were on their way, in the words of John Lennon, to becoming bigger than Jesus Christ. Born from a long-cherished desire on the part of Ujică and combining footage from the time with newly filmed material and detailed, poetic animation sequences, the film reconstructs and fictionalises the balmy August weekend when everything was said to be remembered. Two days that flew by and disappeared like butterflies in the night air. (Gonzalo de Pedro)

In the presence of Andrei Ujică.

Andrei Ujică: VIDEOGRAMME EINER REVOLUTION (1992, CO-DIRECTOR), KAMERA UND WIRKLICHKEIT (1992), OUT OF THE PRESENT (1995), AUTOBIOGRAFIA LUI NICOLAE CEAUȘESCU (2010), 2 PASOLINI (2021, K)