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Courtesy of Tudor Panduru “Fjord,” Cristian Mungiu’s harrowing and pointedly provocative political drama, has now been open for two weeks, and I have a question about it: Where’s the debate? Where’s the fervor, the fire, the discussion, the arguments, the noise, the sense that a movie like this one matters? Everyone is talking about “You Can See Everything,” parsing the nuances of deceit and what is reality and should we blame it on Billy Evans? (we should not). And that’s a conversation well worth having. But when I saw “Fjord” at the Cannes Film Festival in May, I thought it was a movie that would unleash 1,000 conversations, including some highly incendiary ones, since it’s a film that cuts to the spiritual-ideological heart of so much of what’s happening today.
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