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Romanian film review – Hot and Heated: A Summer List

August 8, 2025

Warm and stormy. That would describe this summer so far. Here are some of my faves for the capricious season, films set in summer and/or with a summery air: dusty, sweaty, erotic, romantic, chaotic, melancholic, dangerous. All of it.

My most recent (unexpected) highlight is Sergio Leone’s Dollars trilogy. The master of the spaghetti western, a term coined to describe westerns produced in Europe, made three films about a lone...

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