Graduation

About the movie

The Palme d’Or winner for 4 months, 3 weeks, 2 days, Cristian Mungiu, takes an introspective and earnest approach to the story of Dr. Romeo Altea: a calm and respectable member of society. He wants the best for his daughter and so he greases the system in order to ensure his daughter will pass her finals. He triggers just one more cascade of corruption.
Mungiu’s direction is the kind that refrains from drawing attention to itself, inviting the audience to fully immerse itself in the story and forget about the people behind the camera. It is a powerful and a universal study about the imprecision of parenthood, the relativity of truth and the ambiguity of compromise, revealed by a father-daughter relationship.

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