Norway-set drama about political polarization ‘Fjord’ wins Palme d’Or at Cannes
The film’s win gives Mungiu his second Palme d’Or and extends Neon’s streak to seven straight Cannes top prizes.
- Cristian Mungiu won the Palme d’Or at the 79th Cannes Film Festival for “Fjord,” his Norway-set drama about political polarization.
- “Fjord” follows Romanian Evangelicals in Norway, played by Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve, whose children are taken by child services after the parents spank them.
- Mungiu described the film as a critique of “left-wing fundamentalism” and said it promotes empathy, inclusion, and opposition to social division and radicalization.
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Romanian director Cristian Mungiu won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival for the second time with his film Fjord.
Also consecrated in Cannes in 2007, with 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, director took the maximum prize of the French festival not only for the relevance and urgency of the theme, but for the quality of what it does
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