Graduation

Graduation

  • Director: Cristian Mungiu
  • Countries of origin: Romania, France, Belgium
  • Language: Romanian
  • Release date: May 20, 2016
  • Sound mix: Stereo
  • Aspect ratio: 2.35 : 1
  • Also known as: Family Photos
  • "Graduation" is a feature film directed by Cristian Mungiu and starring Adrian Titiani and Maria-Victoria Dragus . It was released in Romania on May 20, 2016.
    The film tells the story of a Xiaocheng doctor who allowed his daughter who was sexually assaulted to graduate smoothly at all costs. 

    Details

    • Release date May 20, 2016
    • Filming locations Victoria, Brasov County, Romania
    • Production companies Canal+, Ciné+, Eurimages

    Box office

    Budget

    $2,000,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $175,975

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $10,305

    Gross worldwide

    $2,015,002

    Movie reviews

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    • By Isac 2022-07-25 15:13:46

      Graduation--The Real Social Context

      This is more real and almost the same. Although the country is different, it is deeply attracted by the plot. Enen Mengji is really stable and ruthless, and once again uses a video dagger to pierce a series of social problems in Romania: the pressure to go to school, the back door of the college entrance examination, the doctor taking bribes, and the security worry. Chinese indifference, extramarital relations, too. Unlike the old work (432), it is condensed and concise but uses a lot of...

    • By Godfrey 2022-06-08 11:38:51

      "Graduate Exam" about Father and Daughter Choice

      Eating Mala Tang at noon one day and closing the curtains to weed out the warmth and gentleness of European narrative films brings with it a sense of parting.

      The daughter who is in high school is finally no longer like a rebellious monkey. She loves her parents and has patience and independent thinking. The...

    • By Kimberly 2022-04-24 07:01:22

      Midlife Crisis Compromise

      When I first saw the title of "Graduation Exam", I thought it was a youth inspirational theme with "The Spice Girls at the Bottom". As a result, the long shots at the beginning shocked me. The tone of the whole film has basically been established. Let's talk about the film first. Nominated for the Palme d'Or in Cannes, nominated for the best director, Christian Mongi is a famous Romanian director, assistant director and screenwriter, so the overall rhythm of the film is very slow, 122 minutes...

    • By Jamil 2022-04-24 07:01:22

      A stern and mixed realistic painting

      Romanian director Christian Mongi won the Best Director Award at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival with his new "Graduation Exam", which is also his second honor after winning Best Director for "Three Weeks and Two Days in April" in 2007 work.

      The story takes place in an ordinary middle-class family in Romania. Romeo, the attending doctor, intends to send his daughter Eliza to study in the UK after...

    • By Darion 2022-04-24 07:01:22

      cold in eastern europe

      Eastern Europe, like Iran, has contributed a large number of critical realism films in the past two decades, involving politics. Eastern Europe's is relatively cold, while Iran's is relatively softer. The graduation exam is another revelation by Mengji. This time, he chose such a type of person. The blood of his youth has become a smooth middle-aged man. He began to integrate into the system, and began to use the resources in his hands, between ideals and reality. Struggling, the only hope is...

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    • By Rico 2023-09-30 02:20:43

      Bacalaureat (2016) Coincidentally, the Romanian-American colleague who was working on campus happened to mention that she cried three times during the whole movie watching a movie at school, because every plot, scene, and character in the film were so real, even if She immigrated to the United States at the age of 10, and can't forget those gray streets. When asked, it was indeed the graduation exam. She said that every Romanian talks about chasing...

    • By Abe 2023-09-24 22:42:52

      When the only way to escape the country was disrupted by an attack, its rhythm was transmitted to all dimensions of life, causing the originally fragile balance to gradually get out of control, drifting in the whirlpools with the fear of walking alone in the dark night. In chaos, only the goal is not enough to restore order, and the rules and patterns generated and confirmed within are the anchors. The whole movie is filled with blue, boundless melancholy with a little bit of powerless...

    • By Fabian 2023-09-18 04:00:24

      Mongy still uses the handheld long-lens narrative that he is good at, and is more stable and skilled. This film passed an accidental sexual assault security inspection, and the layers were stripped away, implicated in the real Romanian social system. However, compared with "April Three Weeks and Two Days", it is a little less sharp and talented, but it is still a very solid and excellent...

    • By Idella 2023-09-07 11:54:42

      Starting from small things, pulling one hair and moving the whole body, the movie-watching experience ranges from "poor parents in the world" to "this is society". In fact, this story is also a story that many mainland directors have wanted to shoot but dare not shoot in the past two years. In the end, they can only touch it in a subtle way. In fact, it is completely possible to use this same method to "eulogize" this...

    • By Salma 2023-07-23 09:24:18

      Awesome! Lock the Palme d'Or! The middle-class male doctor's midlife crisis in Romania, the daughter's sexual assault before the college entrance examination, the extramarital affair with the female patient, the hidden rules of the college entrance examination, the hidden rules of doctors and patients... Very Chinese, but also very TV...

    Evaluation action

    The film expresses the choices and troubles that everyone faces in life, and explores whether the rules of life have a real moral foundation, and whether they can be applied to the lives of the next generation, so that the audience can understand the truth. (Tencent Entertainment Review) 
    The film starts from daily life, captures the delicate feelings of family life, and at the same time sets the contradictory moral problems of future...
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    Movie quotes

    • Romeo: Eliza, you have to do your best. It'd be a pity to miss this chance. Some important steps in life depend on small things. And some chances shouldn't be wasted. You know, in '91, your Mum and I decided to move back. It was a bad decision. We thought things would change, we thought we'd move mountains. We didn't move anything. I have no regrets, though. At least we tried...