Don’t Let Filmmaker Bogdan George Apetri’s Intellectual Cunning Scare You Away From His ‘Miracle’
Apetri doesn’t let idiosyncrasies of taste or style altogether derail what is a curious and involving picture. It is, in fact, a shocking entertainment.

“Miracle,” the most recent effort from the Romanian-born, New York City-based director Bogdan George Apetri, begins as something of a conundrum, perhaps even an annoyance, but — be patient. The enigmas it trucks in are worth attending to.
Like most creative individuals who came of age after 1970, Mr. Apetri is to the postmodern born. That is to say, he’s heir to the reflexive machinations, the irony and self-consciousness, that have influenced — some might say “damaged” — subsequent generations.
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