Mungiu Has Launched His Film in France, Fjord, Which Explores and Fractures Society. We Are Divided Into Camps and We Always Have the Feeling that Others Are ‘Brainwashed', some Tolomaci.
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The Romanian filmmaker Cristian Mungiu has launched himself in cinemas in France along the way that brought him a new Palme d'Or, Fjord, and he talks about the solution of a problem that is already chronic and in Romania: the fracture of society. Article Mungiu has launched himself in France Fjord, the film that explores and the fracture of society. We are divided in camps and we always have the feeling that the others are 'brainwashed', some to…
Palme d'or du Festival 2026, "Fjord" has been available in French theatres since 19 August. In this video, his director, the Romanian Cristian Mungiu, decrypts for "Le Monde" how he built the first scene of the film.
When he received his second Palm de Oro in May, director Cristian Mungiu expressed his concern about the state of our “fracted and radicalized societies”, and the widening gap between conservatives and progressives, which, according to him, have become unable to dialogue and agree.Since his presentation in Cannes, Fjord, which is now premiered in cinemas, seems to have the exact opposite effect to what he had set itself as an objective: it provo…
Cristian Mungiu seems to be determined to produce only one type of work: the "festival film". Take an austere subject (here, a Romanian evangelist family that settles in a small Norwegian city), an international casting certified intello, and above all a staging that aims to forget eighty years of cinema technique. One wonders how the president of the jury, Park Chan-wook, undisputed master of a baroque and operatic cinema, could be persuaded by…
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