Alex Mironescu’s docu-drama Iulian: A True Story is a true story
about humanity. Iulian walks the streets as a modern shepherd, abandoned dogs
follow him acting as sheep dogs while the almost-mystical fog engulfs the image.
He treads through the grey landscape as if to mimic one of Béla Tarr’s anomic male personas - completely alienated from the ‘real’
world, from society. Iulian grew up in an orphanage, a product of dictator Nicolae
Ceaușescu’s absurd banning of contraceptives in communist
Romania. He eats his meals in the homes of a couple of generous residents and
sleeps in a tent which he assembles every evening in a nearby vacant lot that
is riddled with pollution. Iulian seems oddly content with his life, perhaps
because it is simple and absent of the stress common individuals suffer.
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