''R.M.N.'' is a 2022 drama film written and directed by
Cristian Mungiu. Set in a multiethnic village in
Transylvania, Romania, during the 2019–20 holiday season, the film follows a man who returns from Germany and his ex-lover who works in the village. Mungiu named the film after a Romanian acronym for
nuclear magnetic resonance, as the film is "an investigation of the brain, a brain scan trying to detect things below the surface".
The film is based on the
2020 Ditrău xenophobic incident
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.
The film premiered in competition at the
Cannes Film Festival in May 2022.
Cast
* Marin Grigore as Matthias
* Judith State as Csilla
* Macrina Bârlădeanu as Ana
* Orsolya Moldován as Mrs. Dénes
* Andrei Finți as Papa Otto
* Mark Blenyesi as Rudi
* Ovidiu Crișan as Mr. Baciu
Production
Mungiu wrote the screenplay in the spring of 2021.
Filming took place from November 2021 to January 2022 in
Rimetea
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and other villages across
Transylvania.
Release
The film premiered at the
2022 Cannes Film Festival
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in the main competition. In May 2022,
IFC Films acquired the North American rights ahead of the premiere, and released it in US theaters on April 28, 2023.
It also screened at the
2022 Toronto International Film Festival
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, in the Contemporary World Cinema category, as well as at the 29th edition of the
European Film Festival Palić
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, and the 15th edition of
the Central and Eastern European Film Festival in Luxembourg.
Reception
Accolades
It was awarded the Golden Tower for Best Film at the 2022 European Film Festival Palić and received a Special Mention from the Press Jury of the 2022 CinEast Film Festival in
Luxembourg.
References
External links
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2020s Romanian-language films
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French drama films
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