A little boy walks through a snowy forest to go to school.
Suddenly, something (or someone) appears in his field of vision and terrifies him.
The kid scoots off like a rabbit.
The viewer will not have the end of the story… The introduction to the new film by Romanian director Cristian Mungiu,
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(in official competition), does not fail to intrigue the public.
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Since its beginnings, we know that the director's cinema of
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(Palme d'or at Cannes in 2007) likes to anchor its stories in the cinematographic form of the fairy tale.
His latest film, set in the heart of a small village in Transylvania nestled at the foot of the mountains, a few days before Christmas, is no exception to the rule.
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At the same time, we meet Matthias (played with power and accuracy by the actor Marin Grigore), the father of the kid scared of the first images, who works in a slaughterhouse in Germany.
Tall, rough, silent, a little lost, he is called a "Gypsy"...
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