In this brilliantly knotty moral drama, set in rural Norway, Cristian Mungiu’s (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days) film features Renate Reinsve and an unrecognizable Sebastian Stan as a Norwegian mom and her Romanian engineer husband, who discover that the warm welcome of their new hometown goes just so far. Their teenage daughter Elia (Vanessa Ceban) is spotted with unexplained bruises. Mungiu keeps Fjord riveting by letting it unfold as a moral and social quandary more than a mystery. (dir. Christian Mungiu, Romania/France/Denmark/Finland/Norway/Sweden, 2026, 146 min.)
“Against the stark beauty of Norwegian precipices, Fjord sustains nail-biting tension through meticulous pacing, confirming Mungiu as one of contemporary cinema’s sharpest moral observers.” –The Irish Times
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