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Cristi Puiu's mesmerizing study of an elderly man shuttled among dispassionate health-care providers pulled back the curtain on an incredibly talented generation of Romanian filmmakers, raised during the oppressive Ceausescu regime and now making potent, politically charged art versus Abbas Kiarostami's astounding hall-of-mirrors docudrama which was a watershed for the then-burgeoning Iranian cinema. Based on a true story, it tells the tale of a con artist who passed himself off as a locally famous filmmaker. Further blurring the lines between fiction and reality, the writer-director enlisted everyone involved in the actual scam to act as themselves. Which is better?