Georgiana Musat

Georgiana Mușat is a film critic established in Bucharest. She just finished the Film Studies MA at the “I.L. Caragiale” National University of Theatre and Film. She is a weekly columnist for Scena9 and also collaborates with Acoperișul de Sticlă, Films in Frame, FILM Magazine, and is one of the authors of Realitatea Ficțiunii. Ficțiunea Realului, as well as Romanian Cinema Inside Out: Insights on Film Culture, Industry and Politics 1912-2019. She is urrently working on various video essays and her thesis on female robots.

Latest Film Reviews

Întregalde (2021)

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This pleasant, thrilling watch shows Muntean is capable of making great cinema in some of the starkest places.

Georgiana Musat · 4 out of 5

A group of people on a humanitarian mission arrive in a remote area of Transylvania to offer the inhabitants various goods, but when they try to help a disorientated local, things take a turn for the worse.
God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya (2019)

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The transformation...shows newcomer Zorica Nusheva as a spectacular presence.

Georgiana Musat · 3 out of 5

A Macedonian woman throws herself into a traditionally men-only ceremony, kicking up a ruckus and standing her ground.
Liberté (2019)

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Serra turns to period pieces not out of nostalgia, but quite the contrary, to provoke and dismantle - a grotesque imagery looking to alter the often sublime portrayal of such figures.

Georgiana Musat · 4 out of 5

A group of 18th century libertines are expelled from court and wander in the forests, seeking asylum.
Dirty God (2019)

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Ever cursed to wear a half-sealed translucent franju-esque mask that makes her scars even more visible, Jade is a single mother and an acid attack survivor.

Georgiana Musat · 4 out of 5

Jade is a young mother in the prime of her life when an acid attack leaves her severely burned. While her face has been reconstructed, her beauty is lost beneath the scars. Descending a self-destructive path with relationships crumbling, Jade must take drastic action to reclaim her life.
Preparations To Be Together For An Unknown Period Of Time (2020)

Review preview for Preparations To Be Together For An Unknown Period Of Time

Calling it a plain melodrama would be reductive for such a thrilling piece of cinema.

Georgiana Musat · 4 out of 5

A lonely neurosurgeon falls in love but when she moves to Budapest to be with him, the love of her life says they've never met before.