Sunday Interview. Cristian Mungiu: "The Romanians Are Among the Most Enthusiastic Europeans"
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Three months after his career in Cannes, Christian Mangiu's film was released in the cinema. He surprised us and even disturbed us, despite Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve's tour de force.
The film Fjord, Palme d'Or 2026, is released this Wednesday, August 19. Directed by Romanian filmmaker Cristian Mungiu and inspired by several real facts that have marked Romania, Fjord tells of the arrival in Norway of a couple of Romanian evangelicals and their five children. Everything changes when parents are suspected of abuse and encounter Norwegian justice. A social drama in nuances, which never takes sides.
"Fjord" by Cristian Mungiu, Palme d'or of the Cannes Film Festival: the Shock of the Opposite Worlds
A very pious Romanian evangelical family, newly settled in a small Norwegian city, runs up against the liberal principles of the country, then to justice, when the couple is suspected of abuse.
Through the misfortunes in Norway of a very pious Romanian immigrant family, the filmmaker exposes the cultural divides that cross Europe, and some ambiguities of progressism.
His new masterpiece, Fjord, in theaters this Wednesday, won the Palme d'or at the Cannes Film Festival, his second. With this relentless and disturbing moral drama, the Romanian Cristian Mungiu puts to the test a very pious Protestant evangelical family, in secular Norway. Meeting with an intransigent filmmaker, fine and rigorous observer of contemporary Europe.
Romanian director signs committed film by Renate Reinsve and Sebastian Stan
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