Graduation (2016)
(Bacalaureat)
Country: ROM/FR/BEL
Technical: col/2.35:1 128m
Director: Cristian Mungiu
Cast: Adrian Titieni, Maria-Victoria Dragus, Lia Bugnar, Malina Manovici, Vlad Ivanov
Synopsis:
A hospital doctor with a crumbling marriage and a mistress among his daughter's teachers does everything he can to ensure her prospects of a scholarship to Cambridge are not jeopardised by her having been sexually assaulted outside her school.
Review:
Engrossingly detailed family drama with political undertones: the way in which personal and public moral choices hang like a millstone around the necks of the characters is tellingly caught, as the hangover of the Ceausescu régime ensures that the old culture of favour calling continues to direct Romanian society. The film begins a bit like Haneke's Hidden, with a stone throwing incident that is never fully explained, and there are a couple of nighttime sequences of the father fumbling around that are even more infuriatingly puzzling, but rather like other films such as Two Days, One Night that follow characters around in their Sisyphean struggle against opposing forces, this has a cumulative power that is anchored around Titieni's central performance.
(Bacalaureat)
Country: ROM/FR/BEL
Technical: col/2.35:1 128m
Director: Cristian Mungiu
Cast: Adrian Titieni, Maria-Victoria Dragus, Lia Bugnar, Malina Manovici, Vlad Ivanov
Synopsis:
A hospital doctor with a crumbling marriage and a mistress among his daughter's teachers does everything he can to ensure her prospects of a scholarship to Cambridge are not jeopardised by her having been sexually assaulted outside her school.
Review:
Engrossingly detailed family drama with political undertones: the way in which personal and public moral choices hang like a millstone around the necks of the characters is tellingly caught, as the hangover of the Ceausescu régime ensures that the old culture of favour calling continues to direct Romanian society. The film begins a bit like Haneke's Hidden, with a stone throwing incident that is never fully explained, and there are a couple of nighttime sequences of the father fumbling around that are even more infuriatingly puzzling, but rather like other films such as Two Days, One Night that follow characters around in their Sisyphean struggle against opposing forces, this has a cumulative power that is anchored around Titieni's central performance.
(Bacalaureat)
Country: ROM/FR/BEL
Technical: col/2.35:1 128m
Director: Cristian Mungiu
Cast: Adrian Titieni, Maria-Victoria Dragus, Lia Bugnar, Malina Manovici, Vlad Ivanov
Synopsis:
A hospital doctor with a crumbling marriage and a mistress among his daughter's teachers does everything he can to ensure her prospects of a scholarship to Cambridge are not jeopardised by her having been sexually assaulted outside her school.
Review:
Engrossingly detailed family drama with political undertones: the way in which personal and public moral choices hang like a millstone around the necks of the characters is tellingly caught, as the hangover of the Ceausescu régime ensures that the old culture of favour calling continues to direct Romanian society. The film begins a bit like Haneke's Hidden, with a stone throwing incident that is never fully explained, and there are a couple of nighttime sequences of the father fumbling around that are even more infuriatingly puzzling, but rather like other films such as Two Days, One Night that follow characters around in their Sisyphean struggle against opposing forces, this has a cumulative power that is anchored around Titieni's central performance.