The initials of Cristian Mungiu’s R.M.N. might appear to be an abbreviation of the filmmaker’s country of origin, Romania, and thus set up the film as a portrayal of the nation in microcosm. But in its native language, the title refers to the same brain scan technology better known to English speakers as an M.R.I. The eye and ear for naturalism exhibited by this trailblazer of the Romanian New Wave—and, for 2007’s 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and Days, the country’s first to win the Cannes Film Festival’s prestigious Palme d’Or—accordingly moves from having a sociological interest into an outright anthropological one.
Again drawing inspiration from real events, Mungiu burrows deep into incident that transpired in a multi-ethnic Transylvanian village where a critical mass of residents protested a local bakery that brought in Sri Lankan employees to work. R.M.N. eschews lazy ripped-from-the-headlines topicality,...
Again drawing inspiration from real events, Mungiu burrows deep into incident that transpired in a multi-ethnic Transylvanian village where a critical mass of residents protested a local bakery that brought in Sri Lankan employees to work. R.M.N. eschews lazy ripped-from-the-headlines topicality,...
- 4/27/2023
- by Marshall Shaffer
- Slant Magazine
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