A Romanian film enthralls Cannes

After the projection at the Cannes Film Festival of the film, "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days", by the young Romanian film director Christian Mungiu, the journalist Thierry Jobin salutes 'The incredible vitality of Romanian film'. "With a low budget that never shows and an absolutely breath-taking mastery of hand-held, long sequence shots without any cuts, Munjiu pays a visit to Romania's past a bit like Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck did in Germany with 'The Lives of Others'. ... While the infrastructures and budgets would discourage a Swiss film-maker, while the number of cinemas in Romania has fallen from 250 to 70 in five years, while national cultural policy is hostile to the 7th art, Romanian cinema, carried by a generation that was in its teens at the time of the 1989 revolution and has kept the scars of oppression, is exploding in the world's face."

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