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Takes hold of the audience and never lets go.

Chitu gives a quietly dignified performance, gradually letting us see Irina’s strength through her resilience.

Cristian Mungiu is such a master of vivisecting human interrelations that we might almost overlook how he sets the tone with animals, vegetables and minerals.

Belcu doesn’t need to show us much violence in order to indicate how the mere threat of it can become an effective tool of oppression.

This is a police procedural, but it's also about the nature of policing, about the gap between law and justice, the self and the state.

Sunset while resisting the digital, flings us into a dreamworld where nostalgia for the past is twin to premonition of our future.

The film really shouldn’t work, but it does.

The whistling language is fun - and, if anything, disappointingly underused - but it's the language of cinema that Porumboiu is really interested in.