From David Rooney’s THR review of Cristian Mungiu’s Fjord:
And this:
Cannes Friendo: “Those passages from Rooney’s review are strong, but even there, his jokey conclusion — ‘cancel your Norwegian cruise!’ — misses the point, or avoids it. Fjord isn’t about effing Norway. It’s about a larger mentality, a larger ideology, that began to take root in the U.S. in the mid to late teens. A mentality, I shouldn’t have to add, that we’re all submerged in at Cannes. Will the critics acknowledge this?”
HE to Cannes Friendo: “Not only will they not acknowledge the widespread prevalence of Stalinist wokethink within elite showbiz and media circles — they will also insist on characterizing Fjord as fraught with ambiguity and declining to align itself with either side in the depicted dispute.”