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‘Veni, Vidi, Fugi’ Is A Witty & Multi-Layered Take on The Golden Eras of Humanity!

Sristi Gayen by Sristi Gayen
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Publius Ovidius Naso, the great Roman poet who was exiled from Rome to Tomis in AD 8, is seen sitting, nay, lounging, in K’s house – just as K has been assigned to elucidate why Ovid was exiled and not murdered. ‘Veni, Vidi, Fugi’ is a genre-transcending examination of oppression, with the travails of a charming protagonist K, who is terrible at Latin, thrown into the mix to serve as the canvas for director Robert Eugen Popa’s potentially subversive painting.  

At just under 30:58 minutes, ‘Veni, Vedi, Fugi’ (or, I Came, I Saw, I Fled) employs humour, magic realism, satire, and tension to weave two timelines together to create a razor-edged commentary on Ceau?escu’s Romania. In 1989, Constantin Florescu’s Ovid offers to help K (played by Paul Octavian Diaconescu) with Latin and adds on dating advice in exchange for K’s help in returning to Rome. K himself plans to escape Romania and borrows US money from loan sharks. Added to the mix are femme fatales, high school romances, Caligula like principals and a Latin teacher who steals every scene she is in. Indeed, Maia Morgenstern is a powerhouse, emanating a quiet charisma and firmly establishes herself in the viewer’s mind in her limited screen time.

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Popa, who co-wrote the script with Timothy M. Brice, shows most skill when he uses these elements to take Caligula and Augustus’s Rome as a lens with which to view Ceau?escu’s Romania. Both Augustus and Ceausescu’s rule were propagated as the Golden Era of humanity. “Extremely gregarious, problematic and potentially subversive” K with Ovid’s nudging asks, Is it? Diaconescu is easy to like as K; his self-profession of Latin troubles are amusing, to say the least. And Ovid, Florescu’s Ovid is a joy to watch. You snigger at his comedic lines, and you are in sombre agreement with his plans to return to Rome.

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With mood lighting, Adrian Mihai’s soundtrack, and dry humour, VVF achieves the perfect balance of comedy and drama when K first meets Ovid. Frame composition and Viorel Sergovici’s cinematography are often striking and cast a simultaneously tense and potentially humourous spell on the scenes.

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We came, we saw, we enjoyed the wit of Robert Eugen Popa’s ‘Veni, Vidi, Fugi’, for it is a witty film. ‘Veni, Vidi, Fugi’ has the markings of an idiosyncratic filmmaker. To describe Ovid as a mere figment of K’s imagination would be to take the magic and joy out of the film. The true path would be to, instead, accept that a Roman poet from about 2000 years ago has somehow attached himself to a 17-year old and give yourself over to Popa’s imagination!

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