‘Too many stories exist only to make you think you’re on the right side’: Cristian Mungiu on Fjord, the Cannes winner that divided Europe
Instead, it’s a culture-clash skewering of conservative and liberal values worthy of its Palme d’Or ‘Pffff!” Cristian Mungiu lets out an exasperated sigh.
- At the time, the EU and US were in talks to slash barriers to trade between the two economic blocs, and the film-makers were lobbying the….
- But Mungiu blanks him and leans on to his table, because he wants to tell one more story.
- The Romanian auteur’s new film could have been the kind of homogenous ‘Europudding’ he’s railed against for years.
In 2013, Mungiu was part of a delegation of European auteurs who travelled to Brussels to meet the then president of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso.
We are sitting in the basement of a London hotel, at the end of a long morning of back-to-back interviews for the Romanian film-maker, and his press handler has just snuck into the room to remind him of his next appointment across town.
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