Movie Title : Beyond The Hills Genre Movie :Art House & International,Drama Mpaa Rating : Unrated
Release Date : Mar 8, 2013 Limited Actors :Cosmina Stratan,Cristina Flutur,Valeriu Andriuta,Dana Tapalaga,Catalina Harabagiu,Gina Tandura,Vica Agache,Nora Covali,Dionisie Vitcu,Ionut Ghinea,Liliana Mocanu,Doru Ana,Costache Babii,Luminita Gheorghiu,Alina Berzunteanu,Teo Corban,Calin Chirila,Cristina Christian,Tania Popa,Petronela Grigorescu
Beyond The Hills Synopsis: In an isolated Orthodox convent in Romania, Alina has just been reunited with Voichita after spending several years in Germany. The two young women have supported and loved each other since meeting as children in an orphanage. Alina wants Voichita to leave and return with her to Germany, but Voichita has found refuge in faith and a family in the nuns and their priest, and refuses. Alina cannot understand her friend's choice. In her attempt to win back Voichita's affection, she challenges the priest. She is taken to hospital and the people of the monastery start to suspect that she is possessed. When the doctors send her back, Alina is included in the monastic routine in the hope that she will find peace. But her condition worsens and they finally have to tie her to a wooden plank to prevent her from hurting herself. After ruling out all other options, the priest and nuns decide to read her prayers to deliver those possessed by the Evil One. They perform an exorcism, but the result is not what they had hoped, and Voichita begins to doubt the religious choice she has made. She decides to free Alina - but her decision comes too late. Inspired by the non-fiction novels of Tatiana Niculescu Bran.
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The final shot, with windshield wipers struggling to clean away a torrent of muddy water, suggests that no human agency is great enough to handle this world's misery.Colin Covert-Minneapolis Star Tribune
"Beyond the Hills" seethes with astonishment and rage at a broken society marooned between the 21st century and the 16th.
Ty Burr-Boston Globe
It is a haunting movie, dealing with superstitions, possession, even exorcism, one in which Mungiu poses no easy answers, because there are none to be found.
Bill Goodykoontz-Arizona Republic
It's an enigmatic and austere film from a region where political, sexual and religious repression are as stifling as the sooty air.
Joe Williams-St. Louis Post-Dispatch
If you long for the bleak intelligence of an Ingmar Bergman film, where humankind is deeply flawed and God is indifferently silent and the landscape is cloaked in perpetual winter, then Beyond the Hills promises to be your cup of despair.
Rick Groen-Globe and Mail
There are no easy villains or heroes in this sad and slow but forcefully told tale, which exhibits the same humanity Mungiu brought to 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, his abortion drama that won the 2007 Palme d'Or.
Peter Howell-Toronto Star
Like Cristian Mungiu's previous efforts, Beyond the Hills is an impressive piece of dramatic work that bravely addresses the bigger blank spots on the human canvas. And like his previous efforts, Beyond the Hills is practically impossible to recommend.
Katherine Monk-Canada.com
You'd swear Mungiu has inherited the spirit of Ingmar Bergman. All that's missing is the stark black-and-white photography.
Al Alexander-The Patriot Ledger
Beyond the Hills' undercurrents prove more interesting than its storyline or characters.
Ken Hanke-Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Strikingly shot and punishingly long ...
Philip Martin-Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
(Writer-director Christian) Mungiu balances his film's more disturbing content with peaceful shots of the idyllic, surrounding countryside and of intimacy between the two women while slowly building to an inevitable conclusion.
Fr. Chris Carpenter-Movie Dearest
When the ill and unstable Alina returns to the monastery, just so she can be with her beloved, Beyond the Hills becomes a species of those exorcism movies that audiences gorge on, only done with a realism and ambiguity usually missing from the genre.
Richard von Busack-MetroActive
What makes this movie unique is that it holds literally everyone in the film accountable for the unfortunate goings on.
Mathew DeKinder-Suburban Journals of St. Louis
It's an exorcism movie for everyone who thought, after Mungiu's gruelling abortion buddy-movie 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, that this guy should do an exorcism movie
Walter Chaw-Film Freak Central
Mungui's rigorous approach to filmmaking isn't a ton of fun to watch, but his ideas stick with you.
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)-St. Paul Pioneer Press
It delivers an emotional punch, in what its director has called a story about the sin of indifference.
Chris Knight-National Post
Such is the rigorous and high-minded nature of Romanian cinema that even a real-life exorcism story can inspire something loftier than a horror movie.
Jason Anderson-The Grid
Heartbreak at a Romanian convent
Robert Denerstein-Movie Habit
...Cristian Mungiu has taken a real life event...to consider deeply human philosophies such as freedom vs. discipline, love vs. security, the choices facing those without financial recourse and the hypocrisies of organized religions.
Laura Clifford-Reeling Reviews
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