R.M.N (2022)

Subtitle: 
Europe's Moving Pictures: EU Film Festival
Activity Type: 
Film
Promo Image: 
RMN (2022)
Date: 
Tuesday, January 23, 2024 - 16:30
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Location: 
Harris Theater
Contact Person: 
Ingrid Gomez-O'Toole
Contact Email: 
ing7@pitt.edu
Cost: 
$9.00- $11.00

COUNTRY: German
DIRECTOR: Cristian Mungiu

The latest film by Cristian Mungiu is another fantastic example of the much-celebrated Romanian New Wave. In this drama set in a multi-ethnic Transylvanian village, Mungiu proves himself again a world-class director able to entertain with humor that spares no one. Romania’s region of Transylvania is historically an ethnically diverse community, but now it is hard to keep the village life going because everyone who can is working as migrants in Western Europe. When the local bakery hires migrant workers from Sri Lanka to stay open, the village is gripped by anti-migrant protest. R.M.N. is Romanian for M.R.I., the medical procedure that one of the figures needs. But R.M.N. clearly stands in for Romania itself as well as a diagnosis of social conditions all too familiar outside the Carpathians.

HARRIS THEATER
809 Liberty Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
https://trustarts.org/pct_home/visit/facilities/harris-theater

Faculty, staff, and students of the University of Pittsburgh may attend for free by showing a Pitt University ID at the door.

UCIS Unit: 
Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies
European Studies Center
European Union Center of Excellence
Non-University Sponsors: 
Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
UNC-Chapel Hill; Indiana University and University of Cincinnati
Is Event Already in University Calendar?: 
No