Beyond the Hills (Blu-ray)

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  • Run Time: 2 hours, 32 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region A
  • Released: May 22, 2018
  • Originally Released: 2018
  • Label: Criterion Collection

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Certified Fresh90%

TOMATOMETER
3 stars out of 4 -- Mungiu offers nuance and provocation. The result is quietly devastating.
Rolling Stone
Mar 14, 2013
3 stars out of 4 -- [A]n austere but subtly textured retelling of a 2005 news story in which a young woman died during an exorcism.
Washington Post
Mar 15, 2013
4 stars out of 5 -- A bruising psycho drama from the Palme d'Or winner that taps into the dark heart of central European superstition.
Empire
Mar 8, 2013
4 stars out of 5 -- BEYOND THE HILLS shows how not just the church but a whole society has failed these vulnerable young women.
Total Film
Apr 1, 2013
3.5 stars out of 4 -- Mungiu's frame gives off a bitter chill to make your teeth chatter, all the better to offset characters whose sense of devotion burns so fiercely as to prove fatal.
Chicago Sun-Times
Mar 6, 2013
[H]aunting, beautifully acted....With its long takes and deliberate pacing, BEYOND THE HILLS is demanding but always engrossing...
Los Angeles Times
Mar 7, 2013
It's like THE EXORCIST directed by Robert Bresson. -- Grade: B
Entertainment Weekly
Mar 15, 2013

Product Description:

A woman determined to rescue her childhood friend from an austere Romanian monastery encounters unexpected resistance in this visually striking drama inspired by the writings of Tatiana Niculescu Bran. As a young orphan, fiery Alina was fiercely protective of the more fragile Voichita. Over time, the two girls became lovers, a chapter of Voichita's life that brought her great shame and guilt. Now, as a nun-in-training, Voichita (Cosmina Stratan) has devoted her life to God. Stern priest Papa (Valeriu Andriuta) is determined to ensure that Voichita and the rest of the women under his watch remain on a righteous path when Alina (Cristina Flutur) shows up on a mission to bring her old friend back to Germany. When Voichita proves reluctant to leave the monastery, Alina decides to remain there in hopes she will eventually change her mind. Meanwhile, Papa has grown convinced that Alina has been possessed by demonic forces, and that it's his divine mission to exorcise her of them.

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  • UPC: 715515214919
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