Cristian Mungiu and Sebastian Stan on Fjord

Christian, I see echoes of a lot of your films in this one.

And the one that I think a lot about RMN, your previous one about, and just the sense that we get that you're providing an X-ray of an entire town or an entire community.

And the master shots, which you're alluding to, of course, help with this.

And I'm curious just how, yeah, I feel like even for all the practical differences, we see people have seen your films to see your style in this new setting.

And I'm just curious about that.

You talk about the challenges, but also the achievements of doing that.

Thank you for mentioning MN, because I think there's a connection between these two films.

And the style is more or less the same.

But if there I was trying to speak about, I don't know, the xenophobia which is present in the world of today through a small village in Transylvania with a very conservative kind of view on people coming from outside.

You know, for this one, I was wondering what happens if all of a sudden the conservatives are in, you know, a minority.

What is this changing? Because normally you would expect that as soon as the majority is liberal and progressive, the way they would treat the minority would be different.

But it's not clear if when you belong to majority, the most important things to you are the values that you're serving or the fact that you belong to the majority.

And sometimes it felt that it's so comfortable to be in the majority that you will try to make the others conform to your own values.

And this was one of the starting points of this film, because I was wondering if this is the right message that people that consist this more educated part of the society, should transmit to the others.

Because I think it's a very dangerous message to say that whenever you have a majority, you have the freedom to impose your values to the others.

Because soon these people might have the majority.

And then you won't like if they want to impose your values to you.

So one of the starting points of this film was to try to understand why if...

You know, the Western world, and especially here in the US, everybody was trying to have a more liberal world.

With all these new progressive values, we ended up by having a more illiberal world.

So something in the process of you know, the rhythm or the way in which we were trying to pass this good value, something was not really precisely right.

And I think that every now and then it's good to, you know, maybe think over and try to understand if there isn't a better way, a better example that you can give to everybody else so that the world really advances a little bit further into being more really inclusive with the others and more empathic.