1. Radu Jude interview: “Scarred Hearts is like a jazz piece” | Sight and Sound
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The director's new and stylistically distinctive film uses a sanatorium setting to interrogate Romania's Golden Age. He talks to Jonathan Romney about fragmenting narratives and exposing antisemitism.
2. Scarred Hearts | The New Yorker
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This fanatically detailed, intellectually furious 2016 drama, set in 1937, in a Romanian seaside clinic, depicts a young Jewish writer in the jaws of two pathologies, tuberculosis and Fascism. Based on the autobiographical writings of Max Blecher, it shows Emanuel (Lucian Teodor Rus), a poet, enduring Pott’s disease, which is rotting his spine. The director, Radu Jude, unfolds his horrific treatments—long needles, tight wraps, and a full-body cast—with an unflinching specificity that contrasts with the theatrical tableaux of life in the lavish facility. The medical regimen is the backdrop for a slow-motion whirl of intellectuals, politicians, and socialites who turn the hospital into a microcosm of European sicknesses of the soul. Nighttime parties for youths with prostheses and crutches devolve into roars of militaristic and anti-Semitic chants. Sex is rampant and calamitous; literary ambitions and romantic dreams seep away along with physical vitality. The doctors’ devoted efforts and the patients’ florid brilliance are as useless against disease as they are against Hitler and his followers. In Romanian.(Streaming on the Criterion Channel.)
3. Scarred Hearts | Rotten Tomatoes
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During the summer of 1937, Emanuel, a young man in his early 20s, is committed to a sanatorium on the Black Sea coast for treatment of his bone tuberculosis. The treatment consists of painful spine punctures that confine him to a body cast on a stretcher-bed. Little by little, as Emanuel gets accustomed to the limitations of his new life, he discovers that inside the sanatorium there is still a life to be lived, and he must live it to the fullest.
4. Scarred Hearts - Wild About Movies -
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5. 'Scarred Hearts': Review - Screen Daily
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Dir. Radu Jude. Romania/Germany. 2016. 141 mins
6. To exist, and yet not be “fully alive”: Scarred Hearts by Max Blecher
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In his short life, one defined by and confined by illness, Romanian author Max Blecher (1909 – 1938) published two novels, a collection of poetry, and a number of prose pieces and translations. A j…
7. Scarred Hearts (2016) directed by Radu Jude • Reviews, film + cast
During the summer of 1937, Emanuel, a young man in his early twenties, is committed to a sanatorium on the Black Sea coast for treatment of his bone ...
During the summer of 1937, Emanuel, a young man in his early twenties, is committed to a sanatorium on the Black Sea coast for treatment of his bone tuberculosis. The treatment consists of painful spine punctures that confine him to a plaster on a stretcher-bed. Little by little, as Emanuel gets accustomed to the sadness of his new life, he discovers that inside the sanatorium there is still a life to be lived to the fullest.
8. Scarred Hearts (2016) - MUBI
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Summer, 1937: Emanuel, a young writer, is committed to a sanatorium on the Black Sea coast for treatment. He reads, he writes, he smokes, he drinks and he romances. As he gets accustomed to the sadness of his new life, Emanuel discovers that there is still a life to be lived to the fullest.
