Wednesday, April 11

Andrei Cretulescu: “I’ve been carrying this story in me for a very long time”

Charleston from the section “Young Masters” was screened with the participation of the director Andrei Cretulescu. Charleston follows the story of a man who has lost his wife in a car accident and is trying to cope with this loss together with his wife’s lover. Cretulescu talked about the starting point of the film: “I’ve actually been carrying this story in me for a very long time. The starting point was the fact that my mother had left my father for another man when I was a child. And she came back. Then I asked her: ‘Okay, you fell in love with another man and left. But why did you come back?’ She answered: ‘I loved your father too much.’ I asked myself if a woman could love two men at the same time. That’s how Charleston came about.” Cretulescu also commented on the soundtrack of the film: “I used the songs that I liked and that also could mean something in the film and outside of it. You know, in Romanian films music is not used that much. At the most, there’s a song during the end credits. Everyone said ‘You’re crazy; you can’t make a film with so much music’. But I preferred it that way. We use this aspect of the film in the promotion process of the film in Romania as well.”

Photo: Ersin Durmuş