by Elisa Giudici FJORD from Cristian Mungiu Cristian Mungiu has built an entire career around moral instability, yet Fjord feels particularly thorny. The Romanian filmmaker’s latest Cannes Competition entry begins as a family drama rooted in a real-life custody case before gradually revealing itself as something much larger and far more uncomfortable: a film about the impossibility of reconciling competing moral systems inside supposedly enlightened societies. The Palme d’Or-winning filmmaker has turned a real-life custody case into a sprawling and deeply unsettling drama about multiculturalism, religion, and the limits of liberal tolerance. Fjord reunites A Different Man stars Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve as a Romanian father and his Norwegian wife (a deeply religious Catholic missionary)...
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