On 1st and 2nd of June, in one of the most beautiful places near Cluj, the Bánffy Castle in Bonţida, our traditional outdoor screenings with live accompaniment will present a few additional surprises: concerts, children's activities, cooking shows.
Saturday, June 1, a session of traditional Spanish snacks and drinks – tapas, paella, tortilla, sangria and more – and a Spanish guitar concert will prepare the atmosphere for the event screening at 9:30PM with the silent film Blancanieves. And Sunday, June 2, the audience will enjoy authentic Transylvanian dishes, cooked by old recipes collected by the team of chefs „Niște Țărani” („The Peasants”).
Continuing the trend started by The Artist, the Oscar-winning silent film of 2012, Blancanieves / Snow White (2012), directed by Pablo Berger, is a stylized reinterpretation of the Grimm fairy tale, employing the cinematic means of the early twentieth century. The action moves from the cold North of Europe to the Andalusian coast, in the 20's. Snow White, called this time around Carmen (Macarena Garcia), is the the motherless daughter of a bullfighter (Daniel Giménez Cacho) and travels with a group of dwarf bullfighters. Despite the machinations devised by her stepmother, the source of destructive passions and tensions of the story – hauntingly played by Maribel Verdú (Pan's Labyrinth and Y tu mamá también) - Carmen steps into his father's footsteps and enters the bullfighting arena.
"The inventive Andalusian reinterpretation of Snow White by Pablo Berger is a love letter to the '20s European silent films that freely combines humor with melodrama", writes the American publication The Hollywood Reporter. Blancanieves was Spain's official entry for an Oscar for the Best Foreign and recently won ten Goya awards – the trophies of the Spanish cinema industry – including Best Picture and Best Debut. At the same time, this second feature film by Pablo Berger was the recipient of the Jury Award and Best Actress Award (Macarena García) at the San Sebastián International Film Festival.
The Bánffy Castle events will be organized in partnership with the Transylvania Trust and the Bonţida City Hall.
Tickets for the events within Weekend at the Castle program will be on sale online on www.biletmaster.ro, starting April 15, 2013.
