Screening Room: ‘Fjord’

My review of Fjord ran at PopMatters:

The setting of Cristian Mungiu’s Fjord is so picture-perfect that by the laws of cinema, something must be terribly wrong. When a Romanian family moves to a Norwegian hamlet surrounded by an astoundingly photogenic fjord, everything looks just so. The cozy homes appointed with tasteful bric-a-brac, the sleekly modernist school, the residents’ cheeriness; the whole picture is just waiting for an Ari Aster-style revelation to detonate the contentment…

Here’s the trailer:

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