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R.M.N.
R.M.N.
	Release poster
Directed by	Cristian Mungiu
Written by	Cristian Mungiu
Produced by	Cristian Mungiu
Starring	Marin Grigore; Judith State;
Cinematography	Tudor Vladimir Panduru
Edited by	Mircea Olteanu
Production; companies	Mobra Films; Why Not Productions; France 3 Cinéma; Les Films du Fleuve; Film i Väst;
Distributed by	Voodoo Films (Romania); Le Pacte (France);
Release dates	21 May 2022 (Cannes); 3 June 2022 (Romania);
Running time	125 minutes
Countries	Romania; France; Belgium;
Languages	Romanian; Hungarian; German; English; French;
Budget	€2.8 million
Box office	$738,520

R.M.N. is a 2022 drama film written and directed by Cristian Mungiu. Set in a multiethnic village in Transylvania, Romania, during the 2019–20 holiday season, the film follows a man who returns from Germany and his ex-lover who works in the village. Mungiu named the film after a Romanian acronym for nuclear magnetic resonance, as the film is "an investigation of the brain, a brain scan trying to detect things below the surface".^[6] The film is based on the 2020 Ditrău xenophobic incident.^[7]

The film premiered in competition at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2022.

Cast

Marin Grigore as Matthias
Judith State as Csilla
Macrina Bârlădeanu as Ana
Orsolya Moldován as Mrs. Dénes
Andrei Finți as Papa Otto
Mark Blenyesi as Rudi
Ovidiu Crișan as Mr. Baciu

Production

Mungiu wrote the screenplay in the spring of 2021.^[6] Filming took place from November 2021 to January 2022 in Rimetea and other villages across Transylvania.^[4]

Release

The film premiered at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival in the main competition. In May 2022, IFC Films acquired the North American rights ahead of the premiere,^[8] and released it in US theaters on April 28, 2023.^[9]

It also screened at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival,^[10] in the Contemporary World Cinema category, as well as at the 29th edition of the European Film Festival Palić, and the 15th edition of the Central and Eastern European Film Festival in Luxembourg.

Reception

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 96% of 69 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 8.1/10. The website's consensus reads: "R.M.N.'s spare, elegant approach lends a deceptively cool surface to its caustic take on cultural divisions."^[11] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 81 out of 100, based on 20 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".^[12]

Accolades

It was awarded the Golden Tower for Best Film at the 2022 European Film Festival Palić^[13]^[14] and received a Special Mention from the Press Jury of the 2022 CinEast Film Festival in Luxembourg.^[15]