Still Monday 23.33
Today passed in a strange way. It seemed a short day… at seven I felt like it was three. Still hard…as soon as we are more than three actors I loose my temper. I realize we are difficult and tough to stand and I hope that when I get older and I’ll have some kids of my own or at least very close friends that would have the guts to tell me I ran off the rails. That could be sad. Not to say tiring.
Today we shot the “home” meal. I don’t feel connected with that space and I realize there are so many different opinions about my character…everyone sees kiki in a different way and I don’t have other alternative than to melt all these images if I don’t want to wake up in a fake character. Sometimes I sometimes get the feeling that nobody agreed as far as I’m concerned.

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Finally, Sunday has come and along with it, the beak. The last few days have been a little bit stressing, we had to shoot the most important scenes from the end. Ioana and Maria have been admirable although it wasn’t easy to keep the same emotion throughout 12 hours and then re-capture it in “n” doubles. I hope everything will look the way I want it to and I don’t have to re-shoot it. Yesterday we filmed at my place, on the roof of the block. Shooting combined, at the end with grill, grilled minced meat balls and palinca from Cluj. There were clouds and all of the sunset romance that I hoped for (maybe naive) went down the drain. But we had lots of crows that we took advantage of, in return. We left after 10 days from the suit in Magheru with nice memories. I think we did a good job and gained confidence in what we are doing. I watched together with Alex (the operator) the material from the last few day of shooting and everything seems okay. I’m starting to think we do have very special moments and very good frames. Now the problem is that all these have to connect in a whole and not to be just OK moments.

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It’s Saturday morning. I woke up, out of habit at 6.30 am although today we start at 10. not because it’s Saturday but yesterday we stayed after hours.
While I was brushing my teeth I found out that my eyes were swollen. And that wasn’t all. One is more swollen than the other. They aren’t both on Saturday. I look like I was beaten. Now I’m trying to fix them with stuff like “formula as advises the readers”.
Chamomile compresses boiled and then cooled.
Yesterday was the breaking up scene. A little to melodramatic for popistasu. Hard. With the tear in the eye or throat, we were trying to keep the same intensity and intonation of the voice… toward the evening I was under the impression that I couldn’t see anything because of swollen eyelids and my head was aching: “come on, another one, now quickly”

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But of course I’m tired. Early hour but in my new time perception quite late. 21.15 is that hour when I prepare for tomorrow. Lot of text to assimilate. State to understand. Emotion to accumulate.
My brother will get married on the 12th. My real brother and not chirila that got a haircut in Mrs. Benes’ bathroom and was not quite satisfied with the t-shirts. Ioana, who is beautiful, has talent and is very concentrated reminds me of anamaria, who as well at her first film was focused and amazing. Today giurgiu kept a hold on everything in a sharp-fainting onion smell. I was taking emetiral and losec. Alex who is lucid and calm, pompi who was funny and less tall, miruna is an ironic fairy with perfumed hands, oana is reliable and fair, gelu and laurentiu, the sound couple and the whole gang, the spoilt eliza and Elena who owes me a fresh bottle of wine

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Today we shoot some tough scenes. Maria’s monolog with her Nokia phone where she was telling “things” to her brother and then the discussion from the kitchen between Ioana and Mrs.Murgea. For the first scene Maria held it together and was off the rails just enough, like the character is demanding. She was talking to Chirila’s robot as if she had loved him her entire life. I’m very curious how this will look on the big screen. This could be one of those 3 great scenes from the entire movie. In the kitchen, we shot about 10 takes until the reel finished. In the script there was the scene with a lot of text and Mrs. Murgea didn’t act it out as she should have almost in all takes. Slight mistakes, not big ones, but those were felt. At the end, I was satisfied with take no.7, but even now the thought that the flies aren’t seen in the setting crosses my head. I asked for flies, but lots of them and I got a jar with 20 dizzy flies. 2 died (I will write this at the end, on the generic). I am paranoid enough to think that this scene didn’t turn out as it should because of the lack of flies, but this is how things stand, I can’t do anything. At the Pintilie films all would have gone home till the production and scenography found flies. I am a humble debutante and I will e happy if I see at least one fly in the scene. And if not, I’ll comfort myself with the thought that the scene could have been better.

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