Bucharest, May 23, 2026 (AFP) - Mungiu wins Cannes again with culture wars drama

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2026-05-23

Cristian Mungiu, who won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday with "Fjord", is not a man who is afraid of taking on difficult issues. He won his first Palme d'Or almost 20 years ago with "Four Months, Three Weeks, Two Days", a gruelling indictment of the criminalisation of abortion in Romania that left audiences wincing. This time he took on another prickly subject with his story drawn from a real-life culture war story of a cons......

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