PARIS, Could 23 (Reuters) – Romanian director Cristian Mungiu has returned to the Cannes Movie Competition competitors with a downbeat social drama confronting xenophobia in central Europe.
Set in a multi-ethnic village in Transylvania, “R.M.N.” begins with manufacturing facility employee Matthias coming back from Germany to his impoverished village. The close-knit village’s calm veneer is shaken when residents, amongst them ethnic Hungarians, oppose the hiring of Sri Lankan staff in an area bread manufacturing facility.
“(Transylvania) stands rather a lot for what Europe and the world is right now within the time of globalisation, which is a territory the place lots of people got here earlier, or later, and there’s something to dispute – how are we going to co-exist right here?” Mungiu instructed a press convention in Cannes on Monday.
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The manufacturing facility supervisor is Matthias’s ex-lover Csilla, a Hungarian who protects the employees from violent acts of intimidation and tries in useless to stop their expulsion.
Mungiu, who gained the Palme d’Or for “4 Months, 3 Weeks and a pair of Days”, stated his newest movie’s themes of xenophobia and mistrust of globalisation had been common.
He stated he has skilled being stereotyped as a Roma, an ethnic minority from Romania, stigmatized in lots of European international locations. Mungiu has stated he doesn’t determine as Roma.
“You’ll be able to’t change the way in which folks (simplify) actuality and (use) stereotypes concerning the different,” he stated.
The title “R.M.N.” stands for the Romanian acronym for magnetic resonance imaging, a mind examination process that Matthias’s sick father underwent.
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Reporting by Thomas Newey; Enhancing by Richard Lough and Lisa Shumaker
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