RO cinema: Cristian Mungiu’s RMN in Cannes film festival competition

RMN, the latest film of Romanian director Cristian Mungiu, has been selected in the main competition of this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

At the same time, Alexandru Belc’s first film, Metronom, has been selected in the Un Certain Regard section.

This is the fourth time Mungiu has a film in the official selection of the Cannes festival. In 2007 he won the Palme d’Or for 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, which he wrote and directed – the first Romanian filmmaker to win the distinction. In 2012, he won the award for Best Screenplay for the film Beyond the Hills. In 2016 he won the Best Director award for Graduation, a prize he shared with Olivier Assayas, awarded for the thriller Personal Shopper.

The Cannes official selection includes Valeria Bruni Tedeschi’s Les Amandiers, Ali Abbasi’s Holy Spider, David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future, Claire Denis’ Stars at Noon, Arnaud Desplechin’s Frère Et Soeur, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne’s Tori And Lokita, James Gray’s Armageddon Time, Lukas Dhont’s Close, Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Broker, Ruben Ostlund’s Triangle of Sadness, Kelly Reichardt’s Showing Up, Park Chan-wook’s Decision to Leave, Mario Martone’s Nostalgia, Kirill Serebrennikov’s Tchaikovski’s Wife, Tarik Saleh’s Boy from Heaven, Saeed Roustaee’s Leila’s Brothers, and Jerzy Skolimowski’s Eo. This year’s edition of the festival, the 75th, is scheduled to take place between May 17 and May 28.

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