Internal Zero

A slow, thoughtful watch that blurs fiction and real life, asking you to piece together what is staged and what is felt.

Directed by

Eugen Jebeleanu

Genres

Drama

Starring

Cristina Draghici, Cendana Trifan, Valentina Zaharia

Tagline

All my life, I’ve wanted to be a good child.

Overview

Cristina, a mid 30s secretary living in an alienating and hostile Bucharest, is trying to understand what it means being a bills-paying, ready-to-settle, social-ladder-climbing adult while still desperately wanting to be a good child for the single mom that raised her. She is also a character in a novel that a theatre director is turning into a feature. As the actors start setting into the story, their individual backgrounds, social circumstances and personal motivations begin to overlap with the fiction they were offered, making it their own, questioning it and shaping it. The result is what it’s supposed to be: a playful mesh of perceived reality and fabrication.

How it feels

Melancholic, tense, satirical and earnest. Measured and demanding.

About

Identity, family, class, isolation

Content

Mild sexual content and language. No violence or gore.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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