Cinematic Elegy: Valorizing the Constellation of Ancestral Paradigms

Abstract

Th e current fi lmological approach highlights one of the most relevant genuistic confi guratio ns of the native fi lm in the era of the “ethnic renaissance”- the cinematic elegy. Ad ovo, the phenomenon of the validity of this structure is indicated in both aspects: the genuistic one and the aesthetic one. Th e author undertakes a preventive excursion in the context of the adjacent arts of the period, discovering the presence of the elegiac spirit in the creation of Ion Druță, Vasile Vasilache, Grigore Vieru, Mihail Grecu as the ancestral metastate of the nostalgic hero. As regards the contribution of the seventh art to the valorization of cultural archetypes, the author, focusing on the representative samples Cristian Luca’s Confessions and Th e Last Autumn Month, demonstrates by operating with multidimensional exegesis, the consonance of both discourse aspects at the intersection of global contemplativeness and confessional frenzy of the experiences of the spirit and the soul. In conclusion, the contribution of the elegy to the enrichment of the cinematographic language is emphasized by delimiting the time and space of the seventh art, but also the creation of an atmosphere of unprecedented emotional tension by sensitizing the viewer to the allegories of nature and the music of obvious cathartic lineage.