Fjord, a Romanian family drama set in Norway and focused on child services targeting the family, won the Palme d'Or at the 79th Cannes Film Festival. Cristian Mungiu received his second Palme d'Or after 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days. The jury president Park Chan-wook credited the jury’s diversity and said the film illuminated the need to respect the world’s diversities in an artistically magnificent way. Mungiu emphasized that awards are contextual and urged patience to judge lasting quality over time. He described society as radicalized and presented the film as a pledge against fundamentalism, calling for more frequent application of tolerance, inclusion, and empathy. In the United States, Neon will distribute the film.
"Fjord, Cristian Mungiu's drama about a Romanian family that is targeted by child services in Norway, won the Palme d'Or at the 79th Cannes Film Festival. It was a second Palme for Mungiu, who took the prize in 2007 for "4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days.""
"Park Chan-wook said he had spent the past two weeks discussing "films by diverse personalities alongside jurors with diverse personalities," and that "this double layer of diversity" had brought him happiness. "Fjord," he said, shed light on the issue of "respecting the diversities of the world in an artistically magnificent manner.""
"Accepting the award, Mungiu alluded to his past experience winning and his time serving on the Cannes jury under Steven Spielberg in 2013. "All awards are contextual, and the fact that you gave me this award, it's wonderful for us," he said. "We feel very happy. But we need to wait 10, 20 years to watch these films again, and then we'll understand which of them was really good and managed to survive the test of time.""
"He added: "Today, the society is split-it's divided, it's radicalized. And if you want, this film is a pledge against any kind of fundamentalism." He made reference to "tolerance, inclusion and empathy": "These are lovely words, and we're used to lovely words," he said, "but we need to apply them more often.""
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