R.M.N. is based on an actual 2020 event in Ditrău, Romania, where 1,800 villagers voted to expel three Sri Lankans who worked at their local bakery. This is FRESH AIR. In the new Romanian film "R.M.N.
The title is not, in the end, some kind of code for “Romania.” But if it were, it would be appropriate: The enormous, troubling, intricately pessimistic “R.M.N.” from director Cristian Mungiu, ...
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The director Cristian Mungiu, a powerhouse of the Romanian New Wave, examines a village’s explosive reaction to a bakery hiring some foreign workers. By Manohla Dargis When you purchase a ticket for ...
The following article appeared in the December 3, 1987 issue of Rolling Stone. It is reprinted here to mark the band’s break-up. “I will never tell anyone I’m in this band,” says an uncomfortable Buck ...
You've probably seen R.M. Drake's work on the Instagram feeds of celebrities like the Kardashians and Ludacris. Set on handmade gray paper and in typewriter font are his literary prose that ruminate ...