‘Fjord’ by Romania’s Mungiu wins Palme d’Or at Cannes

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Cristian Mungiu’s Norway-set drama about political polarisation Fjord has won the Palme d’Or, handing the Cannes Film Festival’s top honour for the second time to Mungiu, the Romanian director of 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days.
At a 79th Cannes Film Festival that saw few films break out, Fjord found wide admiration for its engrossing tale of what Mungiu called “left-wing fundamentalism”.
It stars Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve as Romanian Evangelicals who move to Norway, but soon after have...

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