
As Europe becomes an increasingly divided political landscape, it provides fertile ground for writer and director Cristian Mungiu, a figure of Romanian New Wave whose films usually explore his home nation’s contemporary society. Loosely inspired by a true story, his latest piece is legal drama Fjord which, as the title would suggest, is set in a remote village in left-leaning Norway. When Mihai (Sebastian Stan) and his wife Lisbet (Renate Reinsve) relocate there from Bucharest with their five children, their evangelical Christian views go against the grain of the progressive community and conflict occurs when a teacher from the local school makes an allegation of child abuse against the couple.
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