The new film from the '4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days' director adapts a true story of Romanian villagers who turned against recent migrants from Sri Lanka.
The plot, inspired by real events, takes place over the Christmas holidays in a small village in Transylvania. Matthias , a slaughterhouse worker, returns home from Germany and rekindles a relationship with old flame Csilla , who manages the local bread factory. But the arrival of new factory employees from Sri Lanka disrupts the community.
I think the movement has evolved quite well. It’s brought some filmmakers into focus that really had a point of view on cinema and had something to say. But, like any wave, time passes, and even this novel style gets old and becomes sort of a norm. It doesn’t surprise anybody any longer. So now it’s important for each of these authors to reinvent himself and to find something fresh and new to say in terms of topic matter, and also in terms of style.
One of the reasons people behaved so badly, of course, was the color of their skin. But, it’s also true that when this scandal emerged in Romania, the wave of sympathy for these people was overwhelming. People and factory owners all over wrote and said: We’ll hire them, we’ll take them into our communities, they can work here.
The most important conflict in the film, for me, is the internal conflict, not the external one, the conflict between the good part of us, that feels empathy for others, and the instinctual animalistic part in us, which makes us consider others potential enemies that have come to steal our world, our food, our horse or whatever. That’s fight that we need to try to win.
You also point out the hypocrisy of the ostensibly “good” people like the factory owner, who is kind to the foreigners, but also, in a way, exploiting them for their labor. That’s why we end up having all these big surprises when people vote. When the populist parties and the extreme right are successful, people go: “Oh my God, how is this possible?” It’s possible because you haven’t listened to these people, you haven’t engaged in a real conversation. A conversation starts when you listen to the other person. Before explaining to him that his arguments are not valid, you need to listen to him.
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