Cannes Review: Cristian Mungiu’s Fjord Is a Thunderous, Opulent Triumph

A soft upright piano playing “Amazing Grace” drapes in warmly over the opening image of Fjord: a powder-blue-hued glacial mountain towering over the glistening Norwegian fjord around which Lisbet (Renate Reinsve) and Mihai Gheorghiu (Sebastian Stan) have resettled their seven-person family. Lisbet, a Norwegian nurse, and Mihai, a Romanian aeronautical engineer, just moved to the […] The post Cannes Review: Cristian Mungiu’s Fjord Is a Thunderous, Opulent Triumph first appeared on The Film Stage.