TOWILD ANIMALS
Type: dramatic ✦✦✦
Director: Christian Mungiu. With Marin Grigore, Judith State, Macrina Barladeanu
Transylvania: in a society where the difficult coexistence between man and nature, and between different languages and cultures (Romanian, Hungarian, Roma, German) is perpetually in the balance, the arrival of three Sri Lankan workers in the local bakery brings to light xenophobic gasps that seemed dormant.
Mungiu tackles contemporary issues with the rigor of a documentary filmmaker (in a single 17-minute scene, resentment towards Europe and the anti-capitalist impulses of those who have seen the social elevator stop) end up on the table.
A scene from “Wild Animals” by Cristian Mungiu
In the original title, MRI (allusion to the magnetic resonance which the protagonist’s father undergoes) tells of a sick body. The diagnosis is inauspicious.
LEGEND
✦ modest
✦✦ good
✦✦✦ excellent
✦✦✦✦ masterpiece
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