Chuck Norris vs Communism is a fascinating documentary that explores the phenomenon of bootlegged Hollywood movies and their subversive impact in Communist Romania during the 1980s. The film follows a brave translator who secretly dubbed hundreds of films, introducing Romanian audiences to a world of forbidden culture and freedom of speech.
"Nicolás Zukerfeld’s third feature is a wry, surprising work of filmmaking-as-criticism that begins as a kind of supercut of moments from the work of pantheon Hollywood auteur Raoul Walsh. This rhythmically entrancing parade of images traces a mysterious and amusing arc across the director’s vast oeuvre—but at the halfway mark, the film reinvents itself as an idiosyncratic, essayistic investigation into memory, cinema, and their shared mutability." - NYFF
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