There’s a brief moment in Cristian Mungiu‘s R.M.N. that features a fox. It’s not really important to the film’s plot but that’s exactly what makes it memorable and why it says so much about Mungiu as a filmmaker. His films,...
The Romanian New Wave is arguably the last really important cinematic movement, and so far, its chief members have avoided the common call to come make something in America. That leap has now been made by a first-time filmmaker, and...
To simply list the events that befall the family at the center of Cristian Mungiu’s Graduation would make it sound like some kind of dark farce. A rock is thrown through their living room window, the daughter is sexually assaulted,...