# Renate Reinsve On Making Cristian Mungiu’s Cannes Winner ‘Fjord’: “I Knew I Was Going Into A Completely Different World”

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/renate-reinsve-on-making-cristian-mungius-cannes-winner-fjord-i-knew-i-was-going-into-a-completely-different-world/
- Published: 2026-10-23T21:30:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-23T22:24:33+00:00
- Original publisher: Deadline
- Original article: https://deadline.com/2026/10/renate-reinsve-interview-fjord-cristian-mungiu-sebastian-stan-1237172003/
- Topics: Art, Celebrity, Culture, Entertainment, Film, Offbeat, Weird & Viral

## Key points

- Reinsve describes *Fjord* as a shift into Mungiu’s distinct filmmaking world.
- The film won the Palme d’Or at Cannes.
- Her restrained performance portrays a mother facing family separation.

## Summary

Renate Reinsve says moving from Joachim Trier’s films to Cristian Mungiu’s *Fjord* felt like entering a completely different world. The Cannes Palme d’Or winner centres on a Romanian family living in the mother’s Norwegian hometown, where conflict over their evangelical beliefs leads authorities to take their five children into care.

Reinsve plays Lisbet, the exhausted mother, and says Mungiu wanted a distant camera and performances that did not steer viewers towards a particular emotion or judgement. She initially worried that such restraint might make Lisbet’s ordeal difficult to understand, but drew on the idea that a person’s movements can convey the seriousness of an event even from afar. Romania has selected *Fjord* as its entry for the Academy Awards’ international feature category.

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