Two films from Romanian realist director Cristian Mungiu get Criterion releases
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The gifted Romanian director Cristian Mungiu (`4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days`) makes grimly powerful, impeccably acted realist thrillers about a society that, in thrall to rigid tradition and run-of-the-mill corruption, is slowly failing its own. `Beyond the Hills,` released in 2013 in U.S. theaters,...