Go VERY TOUGH BUT EXCELLENT FILM FROM ROMANIA, REVOLVING AROUND A VERY CONSERVATIVE APPROACH TO RELIGION! by Peneflix A challenging, morose, metaphysical, metaphorical film by Christian Mungiu (?4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days?); not for those looking for fluff or fantasy... Based on an historical event in Romania...
88 Chicago Tribune | Michael Phillips Of all the movies culminating in a rite of exorcism, Romanian writer-director Cristian Mungiu's remarkable Beyond the Hills stands alone. Read full review
88 Boston Globe | Ty Burr It’s a deceptively impersonal style, because Beyond the Hills seethes with astonishment and rage at a broken society marooned between the 21st century and the 16th. Read full review
88 Chicago Sun-Times | Beyond the Hills is an arthouse film from Romania, yet, in its slow, lurching progress toward a tragic exorcism, it is a stylistic nephew of America's "The Exorcist." Read full review
80 Wall Street Journal | Joe Morgenstern It's tempting to see Beyond the Hills solely as an indictment of religion, but the film is more ambitious than that. Ignorance and superstition aren't confined to the convent; people in town, including the cops, drop casual references to witchcraft as if it were part of everyday life. The broader subject is possession by primitive ideas. Read full review