Director: Yasuki Chiba
Cast: Ryō Ikebe, Yûji Hori, Setsuko Wakayama, Rieko Sumi, Chieko Soma,
Plot: A drama centered on the friendship between two young women who grew up in the same orphanage; one has found refuge at a convent in Romania and refuses to leave with her friend, who now lives in Germany.
The cinematic art of Cristian Mungiu
Two recent Criterion releases, Cristian Mungiu’s Beyond the Hills (2012) and Graduation (2016), illustrate the richness of the Romanian New Wave; formally rich, morally complex, and dramatically powerful, they both look superb on Blu-ray […]