CritterYawn

The film was launched in March, and recently took part in the Telluride Film Festival. A possible candidate for 2009 Academy Awards' best foreign film.
A review can be seen here.
The DVD release is scheduled for Thursday, Sept 18: news release in Romanian. The price will be around 50 RON, approx. $20.
Trustworthy bookstores (but I did not purchase anything from them online yet) are Diverta and Humanitas.

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Although I have not seen this film yet, judging by the other three I've seen (E Pericoloso Sporgersi, Asphalt Tango and Philanthropy, and a part of a fourth, Dolce far niente, a French production about the life of Stendhal), I can say that the film director Nae Caranfil (whose father, Tudor Caranfil, was a film critic) is the most complete Romanian filmmaker, he even surpasses, in my opinion, last year's Cannes Festival winner, the director Cristian Mungiu. Lucid (and acid) analysis of the contemporary Romanian society, mixed with healthy dark humor and subtle cinematographic references, he is now going back in time to 1912 (Birth of a Nation anyone?) to tell (he also wrote the script) the story behind the first full-length epic Romanian film. Right now, the idea reminds me of Theo Angelopoulos' "Ulysses' Gaze", but there is be no epic line situated in our time, unlike the Greek filmmaker's plot cited above. A few additional information bits can be found on IMDB.

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Still, it may very well be a story about the present too, which was projected in the past, when Bucharest had a specific charm expressed by its then-surname, Little Paris.

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A final note about the DVD: the other Romanian DVDs that I own are all Region 0. However, I cannot confirm if "The Rest is Silence" is also Region 0.
Also, these DVDs I own have English subtitles and generally, in terms of the extras, are just a bit above barebone (trailer, deleted scenes, photo gallery, maybe a short film).