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Photo: Vlad Ivanov as Fr Ivan (One Step Behind the Seraphim), © Matei Buță |
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See it. Share it. Sorted!Bring actor extraordinaire Vlad Ivanov to your home-screens |
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Vlad Ivanov burst onto UK and international screens as the ominous and deeply horrendous Mr Bebe, the backstreet abortionist in Cristian Mungiu’s 4 Months 3 Weeks 2 Days. This was the opening salvo for what is now a huge collection of meaty roles, including those in Metronom (dir. Alexandru Belc) and Blue Moon (dir. Alina Grigore), two internationally awarded directorial debuts premiered at the Curzon Soho during this year’s Romanian Film Festival (RFF) in London (24-28 Nov. 2022). Vlad attended both London premieres and took part in Q&A sessions and various encounters with the audience.One thing to know about Vlad Ivanov is that his talents have allowed him to embody the most outstanding mad, bad and dangerous to know characters in contemporary European cinema, amassing a portfolio of powerful negative portraits. With the same gusto, and the same deep understanding, he has brought an identical professionalism and method-like verisimilitude to all his roles, from corrupt policemen and priests to secret service chiefs, from oppressors, killers, and abusive bullies to heartless businessmen, aggressive fathers, and venal doctors, along with the focussed head of a space agency and a former cosmonaut (Infiniti – French TV series).Whether his leading or supporting character is twisting and corrupting young minds, making informants out of them and forcing them to become part of the oppressive state apparatus (Metronom, Servants, One Step Behind the Seraphim), whether he is glibly explaining the meaning of a word with the aid of a dictionary in order to stifle any dreams of truth and justice (Police, Adjective), or whether he is doing stupid and dangerous things for love and money (The Whistlers), Vlad Ivanov creates real, three-dimensional, truly memorable identities, banishing even the hint of caricature. Even so, as he told film writer Ian Haydn Smith on the stage of Curzon Soho, in a Q&A session part of the 2022 Romanian Film Festival in London, Vlad Ivanov doesn’t want to be just the terrifyingly best baddy, as he now set his sights on a part in a Romantic comedy – we are all looking forward to that!To fully understand Vlad Ivanov’s chameleon like spirit, one also has to remember that he’s played in a variety of languages: Romanian, French, Hungarian, Slovak, English, Russian, Italian – and even the whistling language of Silbo Gomero. He inhabits a vast world, travelling through time and space, from 1970s Romania to the 1980s Czechoslovakia and again in Romania, then jumping backwards to 1913 Hungary (Sunset) and forwards again to the present time (Blue Moon), floating from the desserts of Kazakhstan and Morocco, to balmy Mediterranean islands, to beaches and oceans, inhabiting monasteries, remote mountain locations, crammed kitchens, hotel rooms and blocks of flats, and being at home in churches and police stations.Watch Vlad Ivanov’s gripping roles in the following films currently available on the Curzon Home Cinema platform. Simply claim your membership, and start watching these cinematic gems on https://homecinema.curzon.com/:• The terrifying and amoral Mr Bebe in 4 Months 3 Weeks 2 Days (dir. Cristian Mungiu),• The cynical Chief Inspector in Graduation (dir. Cristian Mungiu),• Inspector Anghelache, the abject policeman with an explicative dictionary, in Police, Adjective (dir. Corneliu Porumboiu),• Cristi, the corrupt policeman and whistler in love, in The Whistlers / La Gomera (dir. Corneliu Porumboiu),• The inscrutable and oppressive secret service representative Dr Ivan in Servants (dir. Ivan Ostrochovský),• Shop owner Oszkar Brill in Sunset (dir. László Nemes),• The unfortunate Grossmeier in In the Fog (dir. Sergei Loznitsa),• Mr Iliescu the site manager in Tony Erdmann (dir. Maren Ade),• Franco the Elder, the terrifying hitman in Snowpiercer (dir. Bong Joon Ho).As a treat to the Romanian and French speakers among you, the film BLUE MOON, presented in this year’s RFF is now available in Romanian, with French subtitles, on @arte.tv Kino. You can watch it here: https://artekinofestival.arte.tv/en/BLUE MOONDrama / 2021 / 85 min / in RomanianOriginal title: Crai Nou / Debut feature / Certificate 15+Top prize at San Sebastian Film Festival, 2021Director: Alina GrigoreCast: Ioana Chitu, Mircea Postelnicu, Mircea Silaghi, Vlad Ivanov, Ioana Flora, Robi UrsThe film follows the psychological journey of a young woman through a dehumanizing process. Irina struggles to achieve higher education and escape the violence of her dysfunctional family. An ambiguous sexual experience with an artist will spur her intention to fight the violence in her family. Blue Moon is a psychological drama which involves family, sex and a little bit of blood.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -For other info on Vlad Ivanov, please check https://subtitletalent.com/vlad-ivanov |
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