Slant Magazine by Christopher Gray
Întregalde is a sharply drawn and subtle fable about the meaning of charity and the limits of altruism.
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Romania · 2021
1h 44m
Director Radu Muntean
Starring Maria Popistașu, Ilona Brezoianu, Alexandru Bogdan, Luca Sabin
Genre Drama, Thriller
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The suspense story follows a group of three humanitarians from Bucharest, whose mission in a remote village in the Apuseni Mountains goes awry. The three humanitarians are left stranded after their car gets stuck in a ditch on the way to drop off a hitchhiker in Întregalde.
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Slant Magazine by Christopher Gray
Întregalde is a sharply drawn and subtle fable about the meaning of charity and the limits of altruism.
Screen Daily by Jonathan Romney
Muntean leads us into a playfully caustic realm of social satire, as his characters find themselves in unknown territory without either GPS or a clear moral compass.
The Hollywood Reporter by Jordan Mintzer
The subtleties and vagaries of human behavior sometimes get lost in the sheer mundanity of the action, although the film gradually builds toward a meaningful depiction of what charity actually means — and it’s far from what the volunteers set out to do in the first place.
Los Angeles Times by Justin Chang
The sly genius of Întregalde is how readily its characters — who can be cruel and decent, self-serving and well-meaning, often in the same instance — encourage the viewer to take their own moral inventory.
The New York Times by Manohla Dargis
Watching it again recently, I now saw a movie that, with humor, tenderness and flashes of filmmaking brilliance, looks at what happens when kindness is tested, masks are dropped and self-interest runs free. It’s all a mess and so are we, which I think is very much to Muntean’s point.
RogerEbert.com by Simon Abrams
There’s more atmosphere than plot in the Romanian drama Intregalde, a moody parable that sometimes feels like the Eastern European arthouse response to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
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