The paper examines the role of tableau compositions and tableaux vivants in representative films of the Young Hungarian Film and the Romanian New Wave, namely Szabolcs Hajdu's Bibliothèque Pascal (2010) and Cristian Mungiu's Beyond the Hills (După dealuri, 2012). The paper argues that albeit apparently being forking modes of representation that traverse distinct routes, magic realism and minimalist realism share a set of common elements and, what this study especially focuses on, converge in the preference for the tableau aesthetic. New Hungarian Film tends to display narratives that share the features of what is generally assumed as being magic realist, accompanied by a high degree of stylization, while New Romanian Cinema is more attracted to creating austere, micro-realistic universes.

The paper surveys two modes of representation present in contemporary Hungarian and Romanian cinema, namely magic realism and minimalist realism, as two ways of rendering the ' real ' in the Central Eastern European geocultural context. Keywords: mise en scene, setting, narrative, kitchen, Romanian cinema, dialogue One could say that this feature is a kind of “social realism” which ironically blossomed after the fall of communism. It’s an invitation to reflect on a world and the “meaning of life” in a social context or background. Lack or elliptic expression is therefore a stylistic teaser designed to encourage the audience to construct social allegories and cultural considerations to reflect on the personality’s moral reasons and social causes that represent the existential background. Lack of explicit explanation will further invite the audience to reflect on higher and more abstract levels of reasons: psychological or social.

Quite often the movies of the Romanian New Wave invite the audience to operate a “mind reading” starting from a minimal set of emotional and cognitive cues to the character’s inner life and feelings. We analyzed several scenes from movies made by: Lucian Pintilie, Cristi Puiu, Mircea Daneliuc, Cristian Mungiu, Nemescu, Radu Jude, Calin Netzer, and others.

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