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Tag / Cristian Mungiu

April 9, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Graduation (2016)

  • Criterion Collection, Mungiu, Cristian
  • 2016, Cristian Mungiu, Romania
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An effortless if restrained effort by Mungiu that compellingly captures the state of Romanian society through one father’s series of moral dilemmas.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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January 24, 2023 by Eternality Tan

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007)

  • Criterion Collection, Mungiu, Cristian
  • 2007, Cristian Mungiu, Romania
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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.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Rating: 5 out of 5.

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July 4, 2022January 24, 2023 by Eternality Tan

R.M.N. (2022)

  • Mungiu, Cristian
  • 2022, Cristian Mungiu, Romania
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Mungiu’s somewhat belated take on xenophobia isn’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.    

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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