#Selfie69 (2016)

Curiosità

Selfie 69 is a 2016 Romanian romantic comedy film directed by Cristina Jacob, a sequel to her 2014 debut Selfie. It follows Roxi, Yasmine and Ana, the three friends from the first film, now in their twenties, who after a night of partying bet on which of them will get married within three days, and the three young men whose lives the bet turns upside down. Crina Semciuc, Olimpia Melinte, Flavia Hojda, Vlad Logigan, Levent Sali and Alexandru Călin return in the lead roles. Maia Morgenstern plays the madam of a brothel in Chișinău.

Production

Jacob spoke of a sequel as early as the premiere of the first film, in May 2014. The first film's result, the best of any Romanian release that year, led her to announce the sequel for 2015. She said later that audiences had asked for a second part and that their reactions had given her the strongest motivation for it.

Under the title Cum să te măriți în 3 zile (How to Get Married in 3 Days), the project entered the CNC's 2014 funding competition, the first held under the institution's new board. When the results were announced at the beginning of October, it came second among fiction features, with a credit of 1,190,000 lei, behind Călin Peter Netzer's Ana, mon amour (1,590,000 lei).

Jacob said in the summer of 2016 that she had been working on the film for two years. Her mother, the director recalled, rang her when she heard the new title to ask what kind of films she was making. A first teaser was already circulating under the title #Selfie69 at the end of 2015, when the producers announced the film for 2016 as more chaotic, more dynamic and livelier than the first.

The six young leads were kept, and Jacob added established names in the adult parts, above all Maia Morgenstern, in a role the producers described as provocative and atypical. Morgenstern said she had not understood the script at the first reading because the information, the images and the jokes came too fast, that the rehearsals had been essential, and that she built the part out of irony, dialogue and costume.

Filming began on Monday, 30 March 2015, and was scheduled to last until 7 May, in 41 locations in Bucharest and Ilfov County, with Barbu Bălășoiu, the cinematographer of Sieranevada, behind the camera. Later press releases spoke of 33 shooting days in more than 43 locations in and around Bucharest, and at the trailer launch in May 2016 Jacob herself counted eight lead actors, 64 locations and 69 extras, a coincidence she pointed out to the audien…

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