#cristian mungiu

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4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days (2007)

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R.M.N. Cristian Mungiu. 2022

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4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, Cristian Mungiu

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Cinediario 2023 - giugno

R.M.N. (2022) Cristian Mingiu

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Favorite films watched in March 2023:

R.M.N. (2022), dir. Cristian Mungiu

FTA (1972), dir. Francine Parker

L’Atalante (1934), dir. Jean Vigo

Providence (1977), dir. Alain Resnais

Family Life (1971), dir. Krzysztof Zanussi

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Happy 55th, Cristian Mungiu.

Dan Petris’s poster for R.M.N. (2022).

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Beyond the hills (2012) by Cristian Mungiu

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Films of 2023: R.M.N. (dir. Cristian Mungiu)

Grade: B+

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Vlad Ivanov, Anamaria Marinca, and Laura Vasiliu in 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu, 2007) Cast: Anamaria Marinca, Laura Vasiliu, Vlad Ivanov, Alexandru Potocean, Luminita Gheorghiu, Adi Carauleanu. Screenplay: Cristian Mungiu. Cinematography: Oleg Mutu. Production design: Mihaela Poenaru. Film editing: Dana Bunescu.    A harrowing, brilliant film, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days is set in 1987 Romania, during the final years of the Ceausescu regime. Gabita (Laura Vasiliu), a student, wants an abortion, illegal in Romania, so she prevails on her roommate in a university dormitory, Otilia (Anamaria Marinca), to help her. But Gabita is so deeply sunk in denial that she's incapable of doing much more than ask for help: It's up to Otilia to do most of the planning and strategy after Gabita has telephoned the abortionist, a Mr. Bebe  (Vlad Ivanov), to make the initial arrangements. Otilia even borrows money from her boyfriend, Adi (Alexandru Potocean), to help Gabita, and when the day arrives, she has been persuaded by Gabita to meet with Bebe and to go to the hotel room Gabita has supposedly reserved. Otilia has to bear the brunt of Bebe's scorn and bullying when he finds he is dealing with an intermediary. The hotel has no record of Gabita's reservation, and Otilia is forced to find a room in another hotel, every time encountering resistance and hostility, plus additional charges, from the hotels. Director Cristian Mungiu, who also wrote the screenplay, finds a tone halfway between Dickens and Kafka in his portrayal of bureaucratic indifference. Moreover, when Gabita finally arrives for the abortion, having characteristically forgotten the plastic sheet she was supposed to bring, we find that her capacity for denial extends to how far advanced her pregnancy really is: She had told Otilia that it has been three months since her period, but Bebe forces her to admit that it has been almost five -- hence the film's title. He demands more money, and when the women are unable to come up with it, he agrees to proceed if they will have sex with him. Mungiu uses long takes, carefully framed without camera movement or cuts, to set up this sordid tale, and the performances by Marinca, Vasilu, and Ivanov are equal to the demands of what amounts almost to filmed theater. After Bebe has performed the procedure and left, while Gabita is waiting to expel the fetus, Otilia leaves for a while, having agreed to attend a birthday dinner for Adi's mother. Once again, Mungiu uses a long take at the dinner table, where the guests, friends of Adi's parents, chatter on inconsequentially as Otilia sits there virtually silent, though obviously anxious about Gabita's plight, as well as feeling guilty about having sex with Bebe. It's to Mungiu's great credit -- not to mention Marinca's -- that he does nothing to communicate this subtext to the scene, other than allow the banality of the dinner table talk to make us focus on Marinca's face and to project our own uneasiness about the situation onto her. Mungiu also contrasts his long, still takes with long tracking shots filmed with a handheld camera as, later, Otilia hurries through the nighttime streets looking for a place to dispose of the fetus. It's undeniably an unpleasant story, but it's also a haunting one, given great resonance by the skillful characterization of the script and its performers and the superb cinematic technique of its director. In a BBC poll of film critics to name the best film of the 21st century, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days came in at No. 15. I might have placed it higher.

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Teodora Mihai Directs Heist Drama 'Visitors,' Written by Cristian Mungiu

Belgian-Romanian director Teodora Ana Mihai, who made a spectacular fiction characteristic debut with “La Civil,” continues to mix genres in her subsequent movie “Visitors,” the place politically charged social drama meets heist film. “Visitors” makes its world premiere because the closing movie of the Warsaw Movie Pageant. The movie’s screenplay was written by Cristian Mungiu, Palme d’Or winner…

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R.M.N. (2022) Cristian Mungiu.

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11 May 2023

Film: JOYLAND (d. Saim Sadiq, 2022, Pakistan) and R.M.N. (d. Cristian Mungiu, 2022, Romania-France-Belgium-Sweden)

Forum: Gene Siskel Film Center   Format: DCP

Observations: Attended an unexpected double bill at the Film Center. When I arrived at the box office, I learned that they bumped the 6PM screening of R.M.N.; I expressed consternation, started heading out, got midway down the stairs, then rounded back to watch the 6PM show of JOYLAND, which was not on my radar at all (and the nice folks comped me the ticket for my trouble). About 16 people in the audience for that screening. Then I stuck around for the 830PM show of R.M.N., attended by maybe seven folks total. Both shows ran over two hours, which made (in the end) for a very late night. I expected R.M.N. to be grim (a movie exploring the labor-exploitive side of the EU and the ugly, sectional bigotry stirred up by globalism), but JOYLAND in the end proved equally difficult, if more personal in its appeal. Both films are recommended (by me).