Christian Mungiu, the director loved by Cannes, achieves his second Palme d'Or [Cannes★Report]

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• Romanian director Christian Mungiu wins his second Palme d'Or with 'Fjord'

Romanian director Christian Mungiu raised his second Palme d'Or trophy.

On the afternoon of the 23rd, the closing ceremony of the 79th Cannes Film Festival was held. At the closing ceremony, the winners among this year's competing films were announced.

The Palme d'Or went to Christian Mungiu, a Romanian director, for his film 'Fjord'.

Director Mungiu is one of the representative directors of the Romanian New Wave, born in Romania in 1968. Director Mungiu, a director loved by Cannes, won the Palme d'Or at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival with his representative work '4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days', and later won the Best Screenplay award at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival and the Best Director award at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.

As an authentic auteur director loved by Cannes, his works are characterized by realistic direction, long-take techniques, and critiques of social systems.

This year, 'Fjord', which brought him his second Palme d'Or trophy, tells the story of a Romanian family that moves to a Norwegian fjord village and becomes entangled in allegations of child abuse and community conflict. The film received a standing ovation of over 10 minutes during its official screening at Cannes.

Park Chan-wook, the Cannes Film Festival Shim Sa-wi (Director), who announced the Palme d'Or winner today, said, "I discussed films with a jury composed of members with very diverse personalities, and films that were also centered on very diverse personalities. I was very pleased with this dual layer of diversity. This year's Palme d'Or went to a work that very concretely and artistically beautifully dealt with the understanding and respect for diversity in the world," as he called out director Christian Mungiu.

The Korean film 'Hope' directed by Na Hong-jin, which competed in the official selection, unfortunately did not win.

The Jury Prize (Grand Prix) was won by Andrey Zvyagintsev for 'Minotaur', and the Best Director award was jointly won by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi for 'The Black Ball' and Pavel Pavlikov for 'Fatherland'.

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