Weblog Mariana Hristova

 
Mariana Hristova was born on the 05. 01. 1980 in Troyan, Bulgaria. Her mum’s best friend was the head of the local cinema theatre called “Lenin”, so young Mariana had the opportunity to see every film which came to town (except the forbidden ones) three times a week for free. Even in the winter she spent the savings from the tickets for ice cream in the next door pastry shop called “Krubskaya” (Lenin’s wife).

She was a quiet little girl and excellent student until she went to study 30 km far from home – at the Foreign Language School in Lovech. There, without parents’ supervision, she spent her pocket money mainly on beer and film magazines. She was not such a good girl anymore – although she studied both English and Spanish she could hardly cope just with the first one. Therefore she could not become a philologist or an international finance manager as 90% of her school-mates. Her desperate parents tried to make her a pharmacist and because she failed the exams in Bulgaria, they sent her to the University of Skopie, Macedonia.

But Chemistry and Biology proved to be too difficult and logical for her mind, so she came back home. Realizing she could not do anything sensible, Mariana finally decided to become a film critic. The National Academy for Theatre and Film Art in Sofia was the only suitable place for a loser like her. In 2000 she started her education in Cinema Studies and from the last months of 2004 till nowadays she tries to finish her thesis about Pedro Almodovar. Meanwhile she satisfies her graphomania writing film articles in magazines, newspapers and one web site that no one reads. Continues watching at least three (but now different) films a week and drinking white wine with ice and lemon (instead of beer).