Mihnea Gheorghiu has assumed the role of co-chief creative officer of Publicis Italy and Le Pub Amsterdam. In his new role, Gheorghiu will joins CCO Cristiana Boccassini in the creative leadership across all agencies’ clients.
Gheorghiu joined Publicis Italy in 2017 as global creative director working alongside Bruno Bertelli and Cristiana Boccassini and overseeing global projects for Heineken and Diesel. Over the years, he contributed to strengthening the creative excellence of the agency, which was recently named the second ranked agency worldwide at Cannes Lions 2021.
Bertelli, global CCO at Publicis Worldwide and CEO of Le Pub Amsterdam, said, “Over the past four years, Mihnea has contributed substantially to the growth of Publicis Italy’s business and reputation. We are grateful for his commitment to this ambitious vision, working alongside me, Cristiana and the entire board of Publicis Italy and Le Pub. In Mihnea, we have found someone who shares the same passion and pioneering spirit.”
Review: Director Tyler Spindel’s “Kinda Pregnant”
We have by now become accustomed to the lengths some movie characters will go to keep a good comedy lie going. But it's still a special kind of feat when Amy Schumer, playing a baby-mad single woman who fakes a baby bump in "Kinda Pregnant," is so desperate to maintain the fiction that she shoves a roast turkey up her dress.
You might be thinking: This is too ridiculous. The stuffing, alone. But if we bought "Some Like it Hot" and "Mrs. Doubtfire," I see no reason to quibble with the set-up of "Kinda Pregnant," a funny and often perceptive satire on motherhood, both real and pretend.
"Kinda Pregnant," which debuted Wednesday on Netflix, is a kinda throwback comedy. Like "40-Year-Old Virgin" and "Wedding Crashers," you can basically get the movie just from its title.
But like any good high-concept comedy, "Kinda Pregnant" is predominantly a far-fetched way for its star and co-writer, Schumer, to riff frankly on her chosen topic. Here, that's the wide gamut of pregnancy experience — the body changes, the gender reveal parties, the personal jealousies — all while mixing in a healthy amount of pseudo-pregnant pratfalls.
It's been a decade since Schumer was essentially launched as a movie star in the 2015 Judd Apatow-directed "Trainwreck." But "Kinda Pregnant," which Schumer wrote with Julie Paiva, almost as adeptly channels Schumer's comic voice — the one that made the sketch series "Inside Amy Schumer" so great.
The movie's opening flashes back to Lainey (Schumer) as a child playing with dolls and imagining herself a mother-to-be. So committed is she to the role that Lainey, in mock-labor, screams at her friend and then politely apologies: "Sorry, but the expectant mother often lashes out at her support system."
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