If you loved 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, try Beyond the Hills
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Beyond the Hills has roughly 4.0× fewer votes than 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days — it's a deeper cut, not a mainstream recommendation. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
Both films are directed by Cristian Mungiu, and they both carry the dread, slow burn mood tags, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
What Beyond the Hills is
Here's a film that understands the assignment. A young woman returns to her native Romania to retrieve her childhood friend from a remote Orthodox convent. Her friend, now a nun, resists the pull of secular life. It's bleak, patient, and possibly the best Romanian film about exorcism you'll see this week.
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