Interview With "R.M.N." Director/Writer Cristian Mungiu

The Next Best Picture Podcast

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4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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"R.M.N.," the latest film from Palme d'Or winning director Cristian Mungiu, had its world premiere at last year's Cannes Film Festival, where it received strong reviews for its writing, direction, performances, and use of long takes. The film is being released in theaters this weekend from IFC Films and is a haunting, layered piece of work that still has those who have seen it buzzing about its themes and striking ending. Cristian was kind enough to spend a few minutes talking with me about his work on the film, which you can watch or listen to below. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/nextbestpicturepodcast iTunes Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You were listening to the next Best Picture podcast, and this is my interview with the director and writer for RMN, Christian Mung-Yu.
0:12.0	Why don't you?
0:16.0	Rodi, how are you?
0:18.0	Well, when you're scared, I don't know. Nied, no. No, I'm not yet to be afraid.
0:22.6	I don't know why you'd be
0:25.6	I'm being joined right now by one of cinema's most world-renowned filmmakers.
0:32.6	Christian Munji Wu, who currently has directed a film that has been talked about for over a year since it premiered last year's Cannes Film Festival.
0:41.8	R.M.N.
0:42.9	Christian, thank you so much for joining me here today on the podcast to talk about this film.
0:47.6	Thank you so much for anybody.
0:49.1	Absolutely.
0:49.8	So the first thing I want to start off with here is what was the beginning stages of where the idea for this movie came from?
0:58.5	Was it a conversation that you had with somebody?
1:00.4	Was it a news article?
1:01.7	Was it just a general overall feeling that you felt within your own community?
1:06.5	Where did the story generate from?
1:09.9	It was a news article, but a news article which very soon turned into a big scandal.
1:16.4	So it was like big news, first of all in Romania, and a few days, weeks later, it was a big
1:23.4	scandal in Europe somehow.
1:25.1	So it turned into a news which was immediately taken and quoted by a lot of media agencies because of the particularity of this case.
1:38.4	We have a lot of xenophobia. This is not necessarily a topic any longer. But what was particular here was that in this February 2020, right before COVID started,
1:52.0	there was this news about this very small, something between a village and a town in Romania,
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