The quietly gripping film sees him team up with a pair of recent acting Oscar nominees in Sentimental Value’s Renate Reinsve and Mungiu’s countryman and long-time Marvel star Sebastian Stan for a knotty, complex moral tale that functions both as a fascinating conversation piece and a first-rate work of thoroughly engrossing drama.
From our very first encounter with the family, it’s clear there's something a little off. In a striking opening scene that instantly establishes the film’s off-kilter atmosphere, eldest daughter Elia (Vanessa Ceban) is told to hug her father and accept her “punishment”, although we're not told precisely the nature of the wrongdoing she has committed.
Still, to begin with, the Gheorgius are welcomed with open (if privately suspicious) arms by their amicable and well-mannered neighbours, including the local headteacher who asks his own slightly rebellious daughter to serve as a buddy for the new arrivals at school.
Lisbet and Mihai are both bemused and affronted. Although the latter admits to having lightly slapped his children as punishment – something he says was considered perfectly acceptable in his own society – Mungiu leaves it deliberately ambiguous to what extent these bruises were actually inflicted by their parents or whether they may have come from another source (a wrestling class at school, for example).
And crucially, can it really be considered progressive to take children away from their parents simply because we disagree with how they are being raised and the values they are being passed down, even if we're unsure whether any actual crime has been committed?
Tonally, the film is perfectly judged, operating at just the right level of offbeat to be unsettling without ever dipping into anything too overtly absurdist. The same goes for the central performances; Reinsve and Stan intelligently play their characters not as monsters but as something more nuanced, and even if we take issue with the characters' parenting methods and value systems, we are able to empathise with their plight.
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