Graduation

A father's desperate attempt for his daughter.

From the director of 'Beyond the Hills'. I have not seen many Romanian films, but a couple of his films, so I had an anticipation and it fulfilled that. If you are familiar with his works, you will love it too as well. It is an Oscar material like 'Toni Erdmann', but Romania had sent a different film. The film had achieved multiple things, including majorly highlighting the social issues and the education system, particularly from the parent's perspective. But it is basically about a father and his desperate attempts for his daughter for her better future. So it is something like 'Fathers & Daughter', but on one particular topic and the on- screen presentation was so realistic without th...

When their teenage daughter "Eliza" (Maria Dragus) has a violent altercation outside of her school, her doctor father "Romeo" (Adrian Titieni) and her librarian mother "Magda" (Lia Bugnar) are faced with quite a few complex parenting decisions - and not only do they often disagree between themselves, but their daughter is also reprioritising things and this whole commotion is causing the couple to reappraise their own relationship. "Eliza" is on the cusp of taking her final examinations that could see her study psychology at Cambridge and her parents are keen that she leave their Transylvanian community and experience a new, in their view more civilised, world. Her trauma after an attempted rape is making it difficult to concentrate and wit...