Cristian Mungiu

Fjord review: Palme d’Or winner has an incendiary plot for arthouse liberals

Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve are perfectly pitched in Cristian Mungiu’s film about Pentecostal parents whose children are taken by social services

Renate Reinsve: ‘We too have tallest poppy syndrome. Ireland has that, right?’

For Renate Reinsve, star of the Palme d’Or winner Fjord, the key to coping with her rapid rise has been to find space to be proud of her achievements

Cannes 2026: A rumble of discontent, a swell of anxiety and a provocative Palme d’Or winner

People who haven’t seen Cristian Mungiu’s Fjord are already trading spittle-flecked invective on social media. It will generate furious debate all the way up to awards season

Cannes 2026: Cristian Mungiu wins top Palme d’Or for provocative drama Fjord

Ceremony, presented this year by actor Eye Haïdara, was a combination of slick passion and euro-oddness

Cannes First Look review: Fjord - Nail-biting drama exploring European culture and tolerance

Cristian Mungiu’s tale confirms him as one of cinema’s sharpest moral observers

Cannes 2026: Which Irish stars will be there and what will win the Palme D’Or?

Distinguished line-up of auteurs grace festival as documentary on Traveller family flies green flag

Actor Anamaria Vartolomei: ‘I’m 25 now. I started when I was 10. I’ve been working for 15 years. It sounds weird when I say it’

The star of Happening, Being Maria and Traffic appears next in Bong Joon Ho’s futuristic new film, Mickey 17

RMN: Urgent, fiercely intelligent migration drama from a modern master

Romanian filmmaker Cristian Mungiu dissects European hypocrisies and contradictions in this film based on a real-life xenophobic event

RMN: Palme d’Or winner Cristian Mungiu on his powerful Transylvanian tale of migrants and bears

‘Nobody really knows how life is here in Romania, and especially cultural life. There are still people believing that we speak Russian or that it’s very cold’

Never Rarely Sometimes Always: A simple tale about the complexities of abortion

Review: The film paints no sort of sunny picture of the termination procedure

The 100 greatest foreign-language films revealed

Only four out of the top 100 films directed by women in BBC poll of critics

Graduation review: a brilliant study of the soul-crushing power of corruption

Palme d’Or winner Cristian Mungiu returns to the theme of moral compromise, as a good doctor’s tries to help his daughter win a college scholarship

Tallaght community stars in a remarkable film about suicide clusters

Frank Berry has moved into the first rank of Irish film-makers with his naturalistic first dramatic feature

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