The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu

Imagine Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette if it had been told entirely through documentary footage and news reports. You don’t get pink cakes and hairdos here, but Andrei Ujica’s found-footage assemblage of Romanian president Nicolae Ceausescu’s many public appearances imparts the same queasy sensation of an endless, orgiastic soiree that comes to an abrupt, uprising-masses climax.