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- 2023
- Unrated
- IFC Films
- 2 h 5 m
- 2023
- Unrated
- IFC Films
- 2 h 5 m
Summary A portrait of ethnic and economic resentments tearing at the fabric of a small mountain town.
Directed By: Cristian Mungiu
Written By: Cristian Mungiu
- 2023
- Unrated
- IFC Films
- 2 h 5 m
- 2023
- Unrated
- IFC Films
- 2 h 5 m
R.M.N.
7.6
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Summary A portrait of ethnic and economic resentments tearing at the fabric of a small mountain town.
Directed By: Cristian Mungiu
Written By: Cristian Mungiu
Where to Watch
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Universal Acclaim
Based on 24 Critic Reviews
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96% Positive
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 24 Critic Reviews
81
96% Positive
23 Reviews
23 Reviews
4% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
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There are no easy answers here, only people and centuries of redrawn borders.
Mungiu is a master of the long, talky slow burn, and if R.M.N. often feels less focused and more sprawling than some of his earlier movies (“4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days,” “Graduation”), that’s a testament to its expansiveness and ambition. The story becomes increasingly gripping as it meanders and lingers, broadens and deepens, putting peripheral characters into play and bringing latent hostilities to the surface.
Pulling harder and harder at the tension between complex socioeconomic forces and the simple human emotions they inspire, R.M.N. masterfully spins an all too familiar migration narrative into an atavistic passion play about the antagonistic effects of globalization on the European Union.
What Mr. Mungiu puts together, in tandem with the ornate private lives of several main characters, is an anatomy of race hatred.
With bleak serenity of a man who has peered into the abyss and responded with a smile, the filmmaker offers no answer or easy way out to the intractable, and perhaps foundational, human capacity for hate than with his own virtuosic talent.
The power of Mungiu’s work is his writing. Like much of Eastern European cinema of the past decade, he’s crafted a morality tale that should prompt a viewer to take a look at themselves in the mirror wherever they may live. And if it ends without any hint of resolution? With barely a glimmer of hope? So be it.
RMN is a sombre downbeat movie, whose sudden flurry of dreamlike visions at the very end is a little disconcerting. But it is seriously engaged with the dysfunction and unhappiness in Europe that goes unreported and unacknowledged.
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Production Company
Mobra Films,
Why Not Productions,
France 3 Cinéma,
Filmgate Films,
Film i Väst,
Les Films du Fleuve,
Centrul National al Cinematografiei (CNC),
Eurimages,
Canal+,
France Télévisions,
Ciné+,
MEDIA Programme of the European Union
Release Date Apr 28, 2023
Duration 2 h 5 m
Rating Unrated
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Awards
Come and Review
• 2 Wins & 5 Nominations
Chlotrudis Awards
• 3 Nominations
Palic Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
