Ileana JITARU - A Case of Spectatorship as Visual (Un)Pleasure : Moartea domnului Lăzărescu ( The Death of Mr. Lăzărescu) (pag. 209-216)
This paper approaches Cristi Puiu’s 2005 film Moartea domnului Lăzărescu from the perspective of spectatorship theory: in order to obtain a response from the spectator, the film appeals to a number of film devices (camera movement, mise en scene and editing) that the director uses in order to draw the viewer into a particular relationship with the screen. Moreover, as a realist film and conventional narrative, The Death of Mr. Lazarescu is an unpleasurable cinematic product, since it presents an unpleasurable reality (an impaired medical and human system in Romania) and a noneludible existence.