‘Fjord’ Review: Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve Are Religious Parents Accused of Child Abuse in Cristian Mungiu’s Gripping Culture War Drama
Cristian Mungiu's film 'Fjord' explores the cultural clash between a religious family and their liberal Norwegian community. The story follows Mihai Gheorghiu and his wife Lisbet as they navigate parenting and societal expectations in their new home. Tensions rise when the Norwegian Child Welfare Service intervenes, leading to a dramatic custody battle over their children.
- ▪The film is directed by Cristian Mungiu, known for tackling complex social issues.
- ▪Mihai and Lisbet Gheorghiu face challenges in their new liberal community in Norway.
- ▪The plot intensifies when authorities take their children for investigation, raising questions about parental rights.
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Intolerance assumes a more progressive sheen with Cristian Mungiu’s “Fjord,” a characteristically fraught and tangled drama in which the “R.M.N.” filmmaker continues to vivisect the reactionary pitfalls of globalization — this time in Norway, which the annual World Happiness Report consistently lists as one of the happiest countries in the world. Perhaps that explains why Romanian software engineer Mihai Gheorghiu (a bald Sebastian Stan, looking more like Damon Lindelof than the Winter Soldier) was so quick to move his brood from the middle of Bucharest to a scenic fjord in Stranda after his parents died; Mihai’s wife Lisbet (Renate Reinsve, her performance like a shaken willow) was raised in the area, and her mother is supposedly still around to help care for the couple’s five kids.
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