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A riveting downer from the gifted Romanian writer-director Cristian Mungiu, the movie begins a few days before Christmas, when a man named Matthias (Marin Grigore), taking a break from his job ...
The Romanian-Belgian filmmaker discusses the still-unbridgeable gap between Eastern and Western Europe, and shares details of ...
Cristian Mungiu exploded on to the cinematic landscape when his nervy backstreet-abortion thriller, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, scooped the Palme d’Or at the 2007 Cannes film festival.
The Romanian director of "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days" goes deep about his disquieting new film "R.M.N." What's with all the bears, and how did he orchestrate that 20-minute single take?
The director Cristian Mungiu, a powerhouse of the Romanian New Wave, examines a village’s explosive reaction to a bakery hiring some foreign workers. By Manohla Dargis When you purchase a ticket ...
Some directors can be recognized within the first minute of their film: Such is the case with Cristian Mungiu, whose rigor, intense focus and painterly sense of composition can be immediately ...
After he's finished with awards season duties, Stan expects to head to Europe in March to film the new film from Palme d'Or-winning auteur Cristian Mungiu, which brings the "4 Months, 3 Weeks and ...
Cristian Mungiu's new film opens during the holiday season in a village in Transylvania from which many of the local Romanian and ethnically Hungarian residents have gone to Germany and elsewhere ...
Toward the end of writer-director Cristian Mungiu’s R.M.N. comes a virtuosic 15-minute crowd scene worthy of a Bruegel painting. Throughout, the camera holds still, while alternating surges of ...