Skip to content
  • View menu
  • View featured posts
  • View sidebar

Eternality Tan

Hailing from Singapore & writing about cinema since 2007

  • About ET
  • Writings
  • Reviews
    • Latest & Upcoming
    • 0-9
    • A-C
    • D-F
    • G-I
    • J-L
    • M-O
    • P-R
    • S-T
    • U-Z
    • Directors: A-C
    • Directors: D-F
    • Directors: G-I
    • Directors: J-L
    • Directors: M-O
    • Directors: P-R
    • Directors: S-T
    • Directors: U-Z

Featured

Exploring #21: Roy Andersson

March 31, 2026 by Eternality Tan

Devi (1960)

March 27, 2026March 27, 2026 by Eternality Tan

It Was Just an Accident (2025)

March 22, 2026March 22, 2026 by Eternality Tan

Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983)

March 17, 2026 by Eternality Tan

Oscars 2026 Prediction

March 15, 2026March 16, 2026 by Eternality Tan

Beaches of Agnes, The (2008)

March 12, 2026 by Eternality Tan

Secret Agent, The (2025)

March 6, 2026 by Eternality Tan

Trial, The (1962)

March 2, 2026March 2, 2026 by Eternality Tan

Exploring #20: Joachim Trier

February 28, 2026 by Eternality Tan

Silence de la mer, Le (1949)

February 21, 2026 by Eternality Tan

Categories

Tags

1962 1963 1966 1972 1981 1983 1985 1986 1987 1988 1993 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 Canada China Denmark Documentary Eric Rohmer Finland France Germany Hong, Sang-soo Hong Kong India Iran Italy Japan Martin Scorsese Mexico Philippines Poland Ridley Scott Romania Singapore South Korea Soviet Union Spain Steven Spielberg Studio Ghibli Sweden Taiwan Turkey UK USA West Germany Zatoichi

Follow Eternality Tan on WordPress.com

Follow Me

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • X
  • LinkedIn

Supports:

Supports

Supports:

Tag / Cristian Mungiu

April 9, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Graduation (2016)

  • Criterion Collection, Mungiu, Cristian
  • 2016, Cristian Mungiu, Romania
  • Leave a comment

An effortless if restrained effort by Mungiu that compellingly captures the state of Romanian society through one fatherโ€™s series of moral dilemmas.

โญโญโญโญ

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Continue reading →
January 24, 2023 by Eternality Tan

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007)

  • Criterion Collection, Mungiu, Cristian
  • 2007, Cristian Mungiu, Romania
  • 6 Comments

A masterwork of post-2000s East European cinema, this is an intense and uncompromising Romanian drama about illegal abortion that draws power from its stark visuals and ultra-long takes.

โญโญโญโญโญ

Rating: 5 out of 5.

Continue reading →
July 4, 2022January 24, 2023 by Eternality Tan

R.M.N. (2022)

  • Mungiu, Cristian
  • 2022, Cristian Mungiu, Romania
  • Leave a comment

Mungiu’s somewhat belated take on xenophobia isnโ€™t an all-powerful tale, but it smartly situates prevalent issues as a trickle-down effect of EU migrant policies in collision with chronic small-town racism.    

โญโญโญโญ

Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

Continue reading →
Website Powered by WordPress.com.
  • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Eternality Tan
    • Join 242 other subscribers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • Eternality Tan
    • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar