R.M.N.

...it is seriously engaged with the dysfunction and unhappiness in Europe that goes unreported and unacknowledged.

...lust, xenophobia and rage in rural Romania.

Mungiu doesn’t traffic in easy hero and villain narratives. He’s more interested in revealing how easily anyone can be both.

No matter what happens toward the end of “R.M.N.,” there’s a sense that what comes next will be even worse.

Hate is not something that erupts suddenly in the dour but powerful latest picture by the Romanian director Cristian Mungiu.