The Romanian New Wave Crests: Cristian Mungiu's 'Beyond the Hills'
By Costica BradatanSeptember 21, 2013
Cristian Mungiu took the film world by storm in 2007 with 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (4 luni, 3 săptămâni şi 2 zile), which won that year's Palm d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2012, he came up with an equally challenging work, Beyond the Hills (După dealuri), which was at once well received (winning two important awards at the 2012 Cannes Festival) and hotly debated. Los Angeles Review of Books has invited a handful of people to talk about the significance of the film and the story behind it: Anikó Imre, Jean Harris, Clara Dawson and Jolyon Mitchell, as well as Cristian Mungiu himself.
— Costica Bradatan
ANIKÓ IMRE: Romania, the post-Ceauşescu church, and the figure of the tragic lesbian.
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LARB editor COSTICA BRADATAN interviews CRISTIAN MUNGIU
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CLARA DAWSON and JOLYON MITCHELL on religion, pharamaceuticals, violence, and asceticism.
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JEAN HARRIS on the true story behind the film.
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