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  • 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days (2007)
    Review preview for 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days

    Takes hold of the audience and never lets go.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    The story of a young woman who helps her friend to have an illegal abortion in Eighties Romania.
  • Beyond The Hills (2012)
    Review preview for Beyond The Hills

    If the way Alina cries and hugs her friend hello, in between train tracks, does not trigger your empathy, you are possibly already dead.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 5 out of 5
    The story of two female orphans and their friendship in a remote Romanian monastery.
  • Fjord (2026)
    Review preview for Fjord

    Mungiu’s eye moves between the juggernaut and the barely visible.

    Edin Custo · 3.5 out of 5
    Mihai and Lisbet Gheorghiu, a devout Romanian Norwegian couple, move from Romania to Norway with their children to be closer to Lisbet’s family. But tension mounts when one of the children arrives at school with bruises.
  • Graduation (2016)
    Review preview for Graduation

    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.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 4 out of 5
    Story of a small town doctor who is faced with a stark choice after his daughter is assaulted.
  • Tales From The Golden Age (2009)
    Review preview for Tales From The Golden Age

    It is presented as comedy, and judged as comedy it is only partially successful.

    Val Kermode · 2 out of 5
    Life in Romania under Ceaucescu is explored in this portmanteau of urban myths.

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