Editors note: This review originally published May 22, 2022 after the film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. It opens in theaters Friday.
Longtime Cannes Film Festival favorite Cristian Mungiu has returned to the competition once again with a potent look at multi-ethnic strains and divides in a small Transylvanian town in R.M.N. As ever, the writer-director works intimately and close to the ground with his handful of characters who struggle to keep themselves and their barely-getting-by community afloat in changing times. It’s a kind of close-up-and-personal look at contemporary issues in an area not often dramatized or in the news, which adds to the film’s fresh and urgent feel.
Mungiu signals at the outset that things are not right in town through the character of a young boy, Rudi, who has stopped speaking and seems afraid of everything. Things scarcely improve when the boy’s tough father...
Longtime Cannes Film Festival favorite Cristian Mungiu has returned to the competition once again with a potent look at multi-ethnic strains and divides in a small Transylvanian town in R.M.N. As ever, the writer-director works intimately and close to the ground with his handful of characters who struggle to keep themselves and their barely-getting-by community afloat in changing times. It’s a kind of close-up-and-personal look at contemporary issues in an area not often dramatized or in the news, which adds to the film’s fresh and urgent feel.
Mungiu signals at the outset that things are not right in town through the character of a young boy, Rudi, who has stopped speaking and seems afraid of everything. Things scarcely improve when the boy’s tough father...
- 4/28/2023
- by Todd McCarthy
- Deadline Film + TV
R.M.N. Trailer — Cristian Mungiu‘s R.M.N. (2022) movie trailer has been released. The R.M.N. trailer stars Judith State, Marin Grigore, Macrina Barladeanu, Orsolya Moldován, Rácz Endre, József Bíró, and Ovidiu Crisan. Crew Cristian Mungiu wrote the screenplay for R.M.N.. Mircea Olteanu conducted the film editing for the film. Tudor Vladimir Panduru crafted the cinematography for the [...]
Continue reading: R.M.N. (2022) Movie Trailer: A Father tries to Reconnect with His Son in Cristian Mungiu’s Drama Film...
Continue reading: R.M.N. (2022) Movie Trailer: A Father tries to Reconnect with His Son in Cristian Mungiu’s Drama Film...
- 5/19/2022
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
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