not a perfect fim by any means and he has done amazing work in theatre but there was so much potential here for some truly epic romanian productions
that fact that liviu ciulei won best directing at cannes with padurea spanzuratilor and then never made another film
i am personally more inclined towards the latter and i don’t agree on some of mungiu’s more “centrist” takes but i also understand where some of it comes from
i do think there are points to be made about whether you can truly make an objective film as mungiu wants to do or if you’re just blind to how your own values and assumptions dictate what u create
this idea didn’t come to mungiu in a dream and instead was inspired by a real event so yes there very much were people who believed the children should’ve been taken away















