Graduation

Aroview: Subtle and engrossing drama following the moral dilemmas of a well-meaning and respected doctor who succumbs to Romania’s endemic corruption in order to protect his daughter’s promising academic future abroad.

In a similar way to Iran’s Asghar Farhadi (A SEPARATION), writer/director Cristian Mungiu delineates the impact of cultural conventions on personal lives while alluding to the universality of human nature.

“Resonates not just as a vivid portrait of a culture at a particular moment in time, but also of the most enduring and confounding contradictions of human nature itself.” ~ Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post.