If “R.M.N.” had been released in American theaters at the end of last year, it would have made for a sensational piece of seasonal counterprogramming. A riveting downer from the gifted Romanian writer ...
The title is not, in the end, some kind of code for “Romania.” But if it were, it would be appropriate: The enormous, troubling, intricately pessimistic “R.M.N.” from director Cristian Mungiu, ...
The director Cristian Mungiu, a powerhouse of the Romanian New Wave, examines a village’s explosive reaction to a bakery hiring some foreign workers. By Manohla Dargis When you purchase a ticket for ...