Chicago – There is an excellent 90-minute film hidden somewhere within the two-and-a-half-hour ordeal that is Cristian Mungiu’s “Beyond the Hills.” It’s far from a bad film, and offers many sequences of entrancing power, but simply doesn’t have enough material to justify its sprawling running time. Instead of probing deeper, the picture merely becomes repetitive.
Rating: 3.5/5.0
There’s also a dour sense of inevitability that overtakes the suspense at about the one-hour mark. The final outcome is obvious long before it arrives onscreen, and the same could be said of Mungiu’s previous effort, 2007’s Palme d’Or winner, “4 Months, 3 Weeks and Days.” Yet whereas that brilliant film was fueled by its often excruciating tension, “Hills” unfolds with a ponderously cynical logic. Though Mungiu’s work has brought tremendous global attention to the Romanian film industry, neither film will do the country’s tourism market any favors.
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Rating: 3.5/5.0
There’s also a dour sense of inevitability that overtakes the suspense at about the one-hour mark. The final outcome is obvious long before it arrives onscreen, and the same could be said of Mungiu’s previous effort, 2007’s Palme d’Or winner, “4 Months, 3 Weeks and Days.” Yet whereas that brilliant film was fueled by its often excruciating tension, “Hills” unfolds with a ponderously cynical logic. Though Mungiu’s work has brought tremendous global attention to the Romanian film industry, neither film will do the country’s tourism market any favors.
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- 3/14/2013
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Chicago – Five years after revitalizing the Romanian film industry with his 2007 Palme d’Or winner, “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days,” filmmaker Cristian Mungiu returned to the Cannes Film Festival with his eagerly awaited follow-up, “Beyond the Hills.” Mungiu won the screenplay prize while his leading ladies, newcomers Cosmina Stratan and Cristina Flutur, each received acting accolades.
Art house audiences in Chicago will have the chance to catch Mungiu’s chilling drama when it opens Friday at the Landmark Century Centre Cinema. The fact-based tale centers on two old friends, Voichita (Stratan) and Alina (Flutur), who reconnect at an isolated monastery that appears to have been frozen in time. Though Alina expects her friend (and former lover) to leave with her, Voichita opts for a life of devout worship with the nuns rather than embrace mortal pleasures. Alina’s enraged acts of rebellion are interpreted by Voichita’s fellow nuns as demonic possession,...
Art house audiences in Chicago will have the chance to catch Mungiu’s chilling drama when it opens Friday at the Landmark Century Centre Cinema. The fact-based tale centers on two old friends, Voichita (Stratan) and Alina (Flutur), who reconnect at an isolated monastery that appears to have been frozen in time. Though Alina expects her friend (and former lover) to leave with her, Voichita opts for a life of devout worship with the nuns rather than embrace mortal pleasures. Alina’s enraged acts of rebellion are interpreted by Voichita’s fellow nuns as demonic possession,...
- 3/12/2013
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Chicago – In the latest HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film with our unique social giveaway technology, we have 50 pairs of movie passes up for grabs to the advance screening of double Cannes Film Festival winner “Beyond the Hills” from the director of “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days”!
“Beyond the Hills,” which opens on March 15, 2013 in Chicago and is not rated, stars Cosmina Stratan, Cristina Flutur, Valeriu Andriuta, Dana Tapalaga, Catalina Harabagiu, Gina Tandura, Vica Agache, Nora Covali, Dionisie Vitcu and Ionut Ghinea from writer and director Cristian Mungiu. The film was inspired by the non-fiction novels by Tatiana Niculescu Bran.
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“Beyond the Hills,” which opens on March 15, 2013 in Chicago and is not rated, stars Cosmina Stratan, Cristina Flutur, Valeriu Andriuta, Dana Tapalaga, Catalina Harabagiu, Gina Tandura, Vica Agache, Nora Covali, Dionisie Vitcu and Ionut Ghinea from writer and director Cristian Mungiu. The film was inspired by the non-fiction novels by Tatiana Niculescu Bran.
To win your free “Beyond the Hills” passes courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just get interactive with our unique Hookup technology below. That’s it! This screening is on Thursday, March 7, 2013 at 7 p.m. in Chicago. The more social actions you complete, the more points you score and the higher yours odds of winning!
- 3/6/2013
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
It’s been too long since we’ve seen Cristian Mungiu‘s talent in theaters. His brilliant, stark Romanian drama 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days won the Palme d’Or at 2007 Cannes Film Festival and then landed stateside earlier the next year. Fast forward five years, and we’ll likely see a repeat distribution schedule for his follow-up.
Titled Beyond the Hills, Sundance Selects has already picked up the drama starring Cosmina Stratan, Cristina Flutur, Dana Tapalaga and Catalina Harabagiu. We’ve got the first stills today from Flix (via The Playlist) and one can check them out below along with a synopsis.
“Alina has just been reunited with Voichita in an isolated convent in Romania after spending several years in Germany. The two young women have supported and loved each other since meeting as children in an orphanage. Alina wants Voichita to leave and return with her to Germany, but...
Titled Beyond the Hills, Sundance Selects has already picked up the drama starring Cosmina Stratan, Cristina Flutur, Dana Tapalaga and Catalina Harabagiu. We’ve got the first stills today from Flix (via The Playlist) and one can check them out below along with a synopsis.
“Alina has just been reunited with Voichita in an isolated convent in Romania after spending several years in Germany. The two young women have supported and loved each other since meeting as children in an orphanage. Alina wants Voichita to leave and return with her to Germany, but...
- 2/21/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Sundance Selects has acquired North American rights to Beyond the Hills, written and directed by 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days filmmaker Cristian Mungiu. Photos And Video: The Scene at Sundance Film Festival 2012 In the film, two childhood friends reunite in the isolated Romanian convent where one of them now lives. A new conflict arises between them that results in an exorcism. Cosmina Stratan, Cristina Flutur, Dana Tapalaga and Catalina Harabagiu star. Mungiu also wrote the screenplay and produced, along with Pascal Cauchteaux and Jean-Pierre Dardenne. "Cristian Mungiu established himself as one of the great directors with 4
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- 2/20/2012
- by Jay A. Fernandez
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The most exciting news of the weekend pertains to something that, with any luck, will be in about 300 theaters at once. Here, we’re talking about the next film from Cristian Mungiu (4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days) — now titled Beyond the Hills — which Deadline tells us has found an American home with IFC’s sister company Sundance Selects.
Our first wind of the project was caught just under three weeks ago, when it was merely known as the tale of “a young woman’s descent into madness, her subsequent exorcism and the police investigation it sparks.” The lovely news of an acquisition, however, brings a lengthy plot synopsis, one which is packed into Sundance Selects’ press release. You can read that below:
“Alina has just been reunited with Voichita in an isolated convent in Romania after spending several years in Germany. The two young women have supported and loved each other...
Our first wind of the project was caught just under three weeks ago, when it was merely known as the tale of “a young woman’s descent into madness, her subsequent exorcism and the police investigation it sparks.” The lovely news of an acquisition, however, brings a lengthy plot synopsis, one which is packed into Sundance Selects’ press release. You can read that below:
“Alina has just been reunited with Voichita in an isolated convent in Romania after spending several years in Germany. The two young women have supported and loved each other...
- 2/19/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Sundance Selects has acquired North American rights to Romanian director Cristian Mungiu’s "Beyond The Hills." The film marks Mungiu's follow-up to the intensely acclaimed "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days," which was released in North America by Sundance Selects' sister distributor IFC Films. The film has yet to set a premiere date, but it seems quite likely to make the Cannes lineup -- where "4 Months" won the Palme d'Or. Full press release below. New York, NY (February 18, 2012) – Sundance Selects announced today that the company is acquiring North American rights to director Cristian Mungiu’s Beyond The Hills. Mungiu, who also penned the script for the picture, produced along with Pascal Cauchteaux and Jean-Pierre Dardenne. The film stars Cosmina Stratan, Cristina Flutur, Dana Tapalaga, and Catalina Harabagiu. Mungiu’s last feature, 4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days, was one of the most acclaimed films...
- 2/18/2012
- by Peter Knegt
- Indiewire
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