Still waters run deep: why Palme d'or winner 'Fjord' questions our certainties
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Still waters run deep: why Palme d'or winner 'Fjord' questions our certainties
An isolated village in Norway sees its peaceful veneer upset by the arrival of a new family in Fjord, the Palme d'Or-winning film released in French cinemas this week. Inspired by real-life cases, Romanian director Cristian Mungiu explores questions of domestic violence, religion, culture and tolerance through a story that asks whose version of the truth can be trusted.
The Romanian filmmaker Cristian Mungiu has launched himself in cinemas in France along the way that brought him a new Palme d'Or, Fjord, and he talks about the solution of a problem that is already chronic and in Romania: the fracture of society. Article Mungiu has launched himself in France Fjord, the film that explores and the fracture of society. We are divided in camps and we always have the feeling that the others are 'brainwashed', some to…
Palme d'or du Festival 2026, "Fjord" has been available in French theatres since 19 August. In this video, his director, the Romanian Cristian Mungiu, decrypts for "Le Monde" how he built the first scene of the film.
1/3. Before "Fjord", Palme d'or of the Cannes Film Festival 2026, Cristian Mungiu had made six films and obtained a first Palme for "4 Months, 3 weeks and 2 days". Meet at the Festival de La Rochelle which presented an exhibition of his photos, the Romanian filmmaker returns at length to his career for Paris Match.
The seventh film by Romanian director Cristian Mungiu, 'Fjord', won the Golden Palm 2026 in Cannes. This poignant drama released on August 19 at the cinema explores tensions between family values and societal norms in a breathtakingly landscaped Norway.
When he received his second Palm de Oro in May, director Cristian Mungiu expressed his concern about the state of our “fracted and radicalized societies”, and the widening gap between conservatives and progressives, which, according to him, have become unable to dialogue and agree.Since his presentation in Cannes, Fjord, which is now premiered in cinemas, seems to have the exact opposite effect to what he had set itself as an objective: it provo…
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