This year saw a high incidence of cinematic representations addressing the politics of unbridled racism,…
Tag: Cristian Mungiu
In the last ten years, with an impressive number of films striving to tackle new…
Graduation is an intricately woven drama that is partly horror, partly subtle psychological observation of a father-daughter coming of age relationship.
Alina and Voichita had grown up together in an orphanage. They had found solace and comfort in each other’s presence before both of them took different paths in their life. The film opens with Alina returning to home with the hope of reuniting with her childhood friend and starting a new life only to find Voichita leading a completely new life in a monastery with nothing but God at heart. What follows is one riveting on-screen journey that dwells on faith, love, theism, atheism and over all, human emotions that goes unfathomably deep.
