It's a snapshot about the situation of what we live today in a lot of senses - first of all, starting with this anxiety that people experience in general about the future. I think it's the story of the world somehow. And by the way, Transylvania is just a part of Romania with no vampires. MUNGIU: Well, I think that it's not just a story about a Transylvanian village. SIMON: What moved you to tell a story like this right now? Thanks so much for being with us.ĬRISTIAN MUNGIU: Thank you for the invitation. It stars Marin Grigore, Judith State and Macrina Barladeanu. Why don't they hire our own folks? 'R.M.N.' is the new film written and directed by the Romanian filmmaker who won the Palme d'Or at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival.

UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #1: (As character, speaking Romanian). Parishioner replies, they can be God's children back home. SIMON: Priest tells his parishioners, but they're all God's children.

JOZSEF BIRO: (As priest, speaking Romanian).

SIMON: Locals forced the three Sri Lankans who come to a church service to leave. UNIDENTIFIED ACTORS: (As characters, singing in Romanian). Cristian Mungiu's new film opens during the holiday season in a village in Transylvania from which many of the local Romanian and ethnically Hungarian residents have gone to Germany and elsewhere in the European Union to earn better wages and to which people from Sri Lanka have come to work because the local bakery needs enough employees to qualify for an EU grant.

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