Dana P\u0103p\u0103ruz began her career as a costume designer in the early 2000s, immediately after graduating from the Faculty of Decorative Arts and Design of the National Arts University, and has collaborated on numerous films and hundreds of commercials. Some of the films are \u2018Beyond The Hills\u2019 directed by Cristian Mungiu, \u2018La Gomera\u2019 directed by Corneliu Porumboiu, RUXX directed by Iulia Rugin\u0103 and Octav Gheorghe, \u2018Boss\u2019 directed by Bogdan Miric\u0103, \u2018Shadows\u2019 directed by Igor Cobileanski and Bogdan Miric\u0103, \u2018Warboy\u2019 by Marian Cri\u0219an and \u2018Lemonade\u2019 \/ \u2019Honeymoon\u2019 by Ioana Uricaru.<\/p>\n
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For her achievements, Dana P\u0103p\u0103ruz was rewarded with three Gopo awards: in 2016 and 2017 for the films directed by Radu Jude, \u201cAferim!\u201d and \u201cInimi Cicatrizate\u201d(Scarred Hearts), and in 2019 for \u201cMorome\u021bii 2\u201d, the second part of the Morome\u021bii trilogy, directed by Stere Gulea. Radu Jude’s two films, \u201cAferim!\u201d and \u2018Scarred Hearts\u2019 represented two great challenges for the artist. If the action in \u201cAferim!\u201d (a film that received the Silver Bear for direction at the Berlin Film Festival) takes place in Wallachia at the beginning of the 19th<\/sup> century, \u2018Scarred Hearts\u2019 tells the story of a young man suffering from tuberculosis and is a free adaptation of the literary work of Max Blecher.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Here is Dana P\u0103p\u0103ruz with details: “\u2019Aferim!\u2019 was really hard, I think it was the project that somehow increased my value. In \u2018 Scarred Hearts\u2019 the budget was smaller than in “Aferim!” and it was a new challenge because the action takes place in a completely different period. A close collaboration was necessary between the makeup and sculpture departments that created the casts worn by the characters in the film, who suffered from bone tuberculosis and had to be laid on mobile beds. And their life was quite boring, spent mostly in sanatoriums and limited in movement. The biggest challenge was that I had to create the costumes based on these casts, so I took the measurements and most of the costumes in this project were created by my team, very few were borrowed. At least for the character played by Ivana Mladenovic, Solange, a lot was invested, about half of the budget we had, and some very special hats were created, including that hat with birds. The period in which the action of Scarred Hearts takes place is the interwar period, very attractive from a fashion point of view, when we also had a synchronization and a desire to adopt European fashion. All these aspects helped me to fully use my imagination. Moreover, Scarred Hearts is one of the projects that I was able to play with and I appreciated that Radu Jude wanted me to come up with bold ideas. And since I mentioned the hat with birds worn by Ivana Mladenovic, an example is that very hat. What inspired me to create this hat is a cover of the Vogue magazine from 1939, a cover that I showed to the director Radu Jude, who accepted my idea, so, we looked for variants to succeed in making it. I documented the costumes using everything I found from that period, fashion magazines, photographs taken by Romanian artists, and obviously books.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Another important project for Dana P\u0103p\u0103ruz’s career was her work with the director Cristian Mungiu, who hired her as a costume designer for the film \u201cDup\u0103 dealuri\u201d (\u201cBeyond the Hills\u201d), released in 2012.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Written, directed and produced by Cristian Mungiu, the film is inspired by the non-fiction novels of the writer Tatiana Niculescu, focusing on the exorcism of a nun at the Tanacu monastery in Vaslui County.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Dana P\u0103p\u0103ruz: \u201cIn principle, \u2018Dup\u0103 dealuri\u2019 did not appear to be a very complicated film in terms of costumes. Moreover, Cristian Mungiu usually gives you all the freedom and waits for you to come up with suggestions. But the complicated part, which we did not expect, was the fact that the characters wore specific costumes and it is very difficult to document something like that on site, in a monastery, which is a very closed environment. We were lucky, however, that the leading actresses were able to spend some time in a monastery, and that helped us a lot to understand what monastery life means. So Dana Tapalaga, who played the abbess in the film, tried to find out details that were very useful to us, such as how to cover one\u2019s head with that veil that nuns must wear permanently.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Dana P\u0103p\u0103ruz\u2019s most recent collaboration was with the director Stere Gulea, who at the end of last year released \u2018Morome\u021bii 3\u2019, a film that concludes a unique trilogy in Romanian cinema, based on the novels and life of the writer Marin Preda.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Dana P\u0103p\u0103ruz: \u201cIt is a film that explains at a deep level the changes experienced by Romania in the 1950s. It is also a film made with a lot of love and a lot of hard work. It was a very demanding project for me, I didn’t have a single day off during the filming, I would also work at home or reread a new version of the script. At the same time, it is a fresh film in terms of costumes and I think that it can be a surprising story, especially for young viewers\u201d.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The winner of the Audience Award at the 2024 TIFF\/ Transylvania International Film Festival, \u201cMorome\u021bii 3\u201d has been screened at several national film festivals (TIFF, TIFF Chi\u0219in\u0103u, Serile Filmului Rom\u00e2nesc – Ia\u0219i, Film \u00een Sat – Pe\u0219ti\u0219ani, TIFF Timi\u0219oara). (LS, AMP)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dana P\u0103p\u0103ruz began her career as a costume designer in the early 2000s, immediately after graduating from the Faculty of Decorative Arts and Design of the National Arts University, and has collaborated on numerous films and hundreds of commercials. 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