Romanian filmmaker Marius Olteanu (“Monsters.”) is readying his sophomore feature, “We Won’t Get Old Together,” a pandemic-set drama about a man struggling to rebuild his life from the ground up when everything around him comes crashing down. Olteanu is presenting the film this week in the Works in Progress program of the Transilvania Intl. Film Festival.
“We Won’t Get Old Together” tells the story of Radu, an unemployed architect who finds himself at a crossroads amid the stultifying stillness and uncertainty of Bucharest during the pandemic. Caught between two relationships and facing a potentially life-threatening diagnosis, the 40-year-old must make choices that he’s been putting off for far too long.
Speaking to Variety in Transilvania, Olteanu described the film as “a slo-mo journey towards an unavoidable future” that is “scary yet intense, provoking yet filled with a constant need to connect and understand.”
“I also wanted this to be a journey where dreams, feelings, images and words — lots of words and ideas — slowly blur into a riddle about life itself,” he said. “How do we connect and when do we part ways with the ones who, at some point, were fragments of the core definition of our life?”
