‘NMR’
Manager Christian Mungiu
interpreters Marin Grigore, Judith State, Macrina Barladeanu, Rácz Endre
premiere 12/28/22
Punctuation ★★★
Cristian Mungiu uses his cinema to capitalize on Big Issues such as abortion -‘In 4 months, 3 weeks and two days’ (2007), the film that won him the Palme d’Or, religious fanaticism – ‘Beyond’. de las colinas’ (2012)-, systemic corruption in ‘Exams’ (2016) and xenophobia and fear of outsiders in his new film. ‘NMR’, specifically, depicts a town where its inhabitants take the fascist inside for a walk as soon as the local bakery company hires some workers from Sri Lanka.
The Romanian director’s best works use narratives that move against time to raise dramatic power and intractable moral problems; ‘RMN’, on the other hand, neither supports the same weight nor presents us with a dilemma to solve, and all the allegorical elements and subplots that the director includes serve to complicate it, but not make it more complicated; As much as Mungiu and we understand how economic frustration and ignorance turn into racism, there is nothing ambiguous in the racist attitudes the film sets on stage. Also, even by the standards of a filmmaker who seems incapable of emphasizing what he’s trying to tell us, ‘RMN’ a particularly modest movie In considering the successive symbols and metaphors of entrenched intolerance that will destroy Romania and thus all of Europe.