Brutally honest drama from Romanian filmmaker Cristian Mungiu (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days) about a father, his daughter,...
Brutally honest drama from Romanian filmmaker Cristian Mungiu (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days) about a father, his daughter, his principles, and how he can't stay loyal to all of them.
"Romeo Aldea (49), a physician living in a small mountain town in Transylvania, has raised his daughter Eliza with the idea that once she turns 18, she will leave to study and live abroad. His plan is close to succeeding - Eliza has won a scholarship to study psychology in the UK. She just has to pass her final exams - a formality for such a good student. On the day before her first written exam, Eliza is assaulted in an attack that could jeopardize her entire future. Now Romeo has to make a decision. There are ways of solving the situation, but none of them using the principles he, as a father, has taught his daughter." (Cannes)
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94 %140 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
82 %1,755 reviewsAudience score rating
"As expected from a master like Mungiu, everything is beautifully structured and utterly credible, yet Graduation feels like a retread."
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Variety
Variety"It's not a despairing movie - Mungiu even suggests that a new generation might put things right - but it's a brutally honest one."
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Time Out
Time Out"The intergenerational debate underlying Graduation does throw novel wrinkles into the mix."
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The Telegraph
The Telegraph"Graduation is an intricate, deeply intelligent film, and a bleak picture of a state of national depression in Romania..."
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The Guardian
The Guardian"Isn't one of Mungiu's finest, but even a restrained, emotionally measured work like this is more interesting and provocative than many another director's best effort."
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Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood ReporterGraduation (Bacalaureat) | Details
- Runtime
- 98
- Genre
- Drama
- Country of origin
- Romania, France, Belgium
