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\"Christian<\/a>
Christian Mungiu in Graduation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

GRADUATION (Bacalaureat)
\nSundance Selects
\nDirector:\u00a0 Christian Mungiu
\nWritten by: Christian Mungiu
\nCast: Adrian Titieni, Maria Dragus, Lia Bugnar, Malina Manovici, Vlad Ivanov, Gelu Colceag
\nScreened at: Dolby24, NYC, 3\/15\/17
\nOpens: April 7, 2017<\/p>\n

If Christian Mungiu believes that corruption in government and dysfunction in society are unique to Romania, he is wrong.\u00a0 If he believes that only politicians in Romania lie, I\u2019m guessing that he\u2019s wrong again.\u00a0 But of course he is not na\u00efve, and presumably he believes that the hanky-panky going on<\/a> in his Eastern Europe country knows no boundaries.\u00a0 That\u2019s what makes \u201cGraduation\u201d universal in its truths.<\/p>\n

Recall that Mungiu\u2019s masterwork, \u201c4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 days,\u201d which focused on the opportunism of the then Communist government\u2019s ban on abortion, showed not only what happens when women go to metaphoric back alleys as they inevitably will where abortion is illegal but also what takes place when an ideological frame of mind clashes with the realities of human nature.\u00a0 And that\u2019s why hard-line Communism has failed and is generally despised everywhere that major social engineering has been invoked.<\/p>\n

The people of Romania<\/a> now are free of Communism legally but still harbor a mind-set today that has been carried over from the bad years of the Ceausecui government which lasted from 1967 to 1989.\u00a0 Money is delivered under the table, illegal deals are made accordingly, and society suffers.\u00a0 To afford us a physical look at a society\u2019s soullessness, Mungiu gives us a car-eye view of the ugliness of the landscape, not in Bucharest but in the small Transylvanion town where the first thing you may think of when you see the construction is that this must have been planned by Communist bureaucrats.<\/p>\n

The principal character, forty-nine year old thick-set Dr. Romeo Aldea (Adrian Titieni) lives with his phlegmatic wife Magda (Lia Bugnar) and seventeen-year-old brilliant daughter Eliza (Maria Dragus).\u00a0 On the way to school Eliza fights off a rapist, her injury treated by a cast on the arm. But she is traumatized days before taking the most important exam in her life: one that can ratify a scholarship she won for a university in the UK.\u00a0 Her father, who had left Romania when it was Communist but returned to his regret, will do anything to give the young woman a start in life in the UK which he considers \u201ccivilized\u201d when compared to his own country.\u00a0 He arranges deals by which Vice Mayor Bulai (Petre Ciubotaru), needing a liver transplant to save his life, is kicked to the top of the waiting list and, in return, Eliza will be graded by a teacher who \u201cleniency\u201d has been bought.<\/p>\n

Heading a family whose dysfunction could be called a metaphor for the whole society, Romeo Aldea, who receives a meager salary from his hospital, has been openly carrying on an affair with a teacher, Sandra (Malina Manovici<\/a>), though you can\u2019t blame him given the sloth-like character of his miserable wife.<\/p>\n

Mangiu, who received the award at Cannes for Best Director, successfully shows us the struggle between those who will do anything go achieve their goals and to hell with society, and those who would prefer to stay ethical even frustrating those goals. Despite his disgust with Romanian society, Dr. Aldrea is contributing to that dysfunction by his wheeling and dealing, even when his daughter shows that she would rather remain in their crummy little town as long as the rules are followed.\u00a0 When the small son of his girlfriend throws rocks in a playground when kids broke into his line, the doctor, who is minding him for a few hours, has to explain why you don\u2019t take such actions even to counter illegal activities.\u00a0 The boy wants to know why the other kid\u2019s behavior should be tolerated, since aren\u2019t we supposed to play by the rules?\u00a0 The doctor, by agreeing with young Matei (David Hodorog) of course demonstrates his hypocrisy to the movie audience.<\/p>\n

Behind the lens, Tudor Vladimar Panduru manipulates a hand-held camera to give the film immediacy while at the same time capturing the ugliness of the landscape.\u00a0 Acting is superb, and the though the screenplay by the director is stronger on dialogue than on physical action, the over two-hours pass quickly.
\n
\nUnrated.\u00a0 128 minutes.\u00a0 \u00a9 Harvey Karten, Member, New York Film Critics Online
\nComments, readers?\u00a0 Agree? Disagree? Why?<\/b><\/p>\n

Story \u2013 B+
\nActing \u2013 A-
\nTechnical A \u2013
\nOverall \u2013 B+<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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