Luminița Gheorghiu

A headliner of the recent Romanian New Wave, director Cristi Puiu’s slyly quotidian murder mystery confirms the vision revealed in his critical darling The Death of Mr. Lazerscu: a fastidious attention to social reality, human interaction, and the darkened moral pallor of post-Ceaușescu Romania.

Two young gymnasts endure the rigours of training at a world-renowned school in the hope of winning Olympic gold.