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The two central characters grew up in one of the notorious orphanages set up under dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, and Mungiu said that as well as exploring "different kinds of love and what people do in the name of love," the film is also about abandonment. "People who are really responsible for what happened in the lives of these girls are not present in the film," he said. "They are the result of an education that started from the age of
2 or 3 or even younger. The kind of choices that were in front of (them) the day they left this kind of state school were very limited. "So the film does not try to identify the guilty parties from among the characters you see on the film." Mungiu insists that "Beyond the Hills" is a departure from the gritty "4
Months," but the new film retains a focus on the relationship between two
women in conflict with more powerful men. It also keeps the director's distinctive style of long takes, painterly compositions and minimal music. Mungiu's filmmaking is the antithesis of flashy
-- a deliberate choice, he says. "Things happen in front of you and you will decide what is important," Mungiu said. "For me it in the end is a matter of respect for the spectators."
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