{"id":651117,"date":"2026-05-18T21:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T21:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/651117\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T21:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T21:56:08","slug":"cannes-crowd-embrace-fjord-with-raucous-standing-ovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/651117\/","title":{"rendered":"Cannes Crowd Embrace ‘Fjord’ With Raucous Standing Ovation"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tFjord<\/a>, the seventh feature from Romanian auteur Cristian Mungiu to debut at the Cannes Film Festival, may just have broken open the Palme d\u2019Or race. <\/p>\n

\n\tThroughout the gripping family drama, starring Sebastian Stan<\/a> and Renate Reinsve<\/a> as evangelical religious figures and parents of five who get caught in a nightmare with Norwegian Child Services, the rapt audience in the Grand Th\u00e9\u00e2tre Lumi\u00e8re barely made a sound. (Although, during the press screening two hours earlier, journalists could be heard gasping and chuckling in disbelief as each new roll of bureaucratic tape threatened to bury the couple.)\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThen, as the last frame rolled, the crowd exploded in applause and rose to their feet for a near 10 minute standing ovation, the most enthusiastic reception any competition film has received so far this Cannes.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe standing ovation was filled with cheers of \u201cBravo,\u201d as an overwhelmed Stan, in particular, vacillated between shaking his head in disbelief and fighting back tears. The applause likely would have gone on much longer; twice, when festival director Thierry Fr\u00e9maux handed Mungiu the microphone, the crowd applauded and cheered even louder, as if daring the festival to make the stop. <\/p>\n

\n\tAnd when Fr\u00e9maux gently ushered him and the cast toward the door because Nicolas Winding Refn\u2019s premiere of Her Perfect Hell needed to begin, the crowd shouted out cheers of \u201cBravo!\u201d again (as well as \u201cFree Palestine!\u201d).<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI want to thank you because this is the moment of truth for every film,\u201d said Mungiu, switching to English for Stan\u2019s benefit after giving a speech in French. \u201cIt\u2019s when we\u2019ll know in 20 years that the film is good.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tTogether with director and cast, the gala audience included Sharon Stone, Carla Bruni, Cannes jury member Demi Moore, Jordan Firstman (fresh of the $17 million sale of his debut feature Club Kid to A24<\/a>) and Stellan Skarsgard, there to cheer on Reinsve, who\u2019d played his daughter in last year\u2019s Cannes Grand Prix winner (and international<\/a> Oscar champ) Sentimental Value.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe gala premiere had been one of the hottest tickets so far. Students with Three Days in Cannes badges given out for the second half of the festival had been lining up outside in the last-minute line in their gowns and tuxes since 10 a.m., huddling under new friends\u2019 umbrellas in the first rainstorm of the festival.<\/p>\n

\n\tMungiu won the Palme d\u2019Or back in 2007 with his debut feature, the Communist-era abortion drama 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, and he\u2019s back in Cannes competition with three other films, winning best screenplay in 2012 for Beyond the Hills and best director for Graduation in 2016. With Fjord, he\u2019ll be liking his chances of joining the two-time Palme d\u2019Or club when the trophies are handed out on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fjord, the seventh feature from Romanian auteur Cristian Mungiu to debut at the Cannes Film Festival, may just…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":651118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[252484,88,275512,2091,85495,145971],"class_list":["post-651117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-cannes-2026","tag-entertainment","tag-fjord","tag-international","tag-renate-reinsve","tag-sebastian-stan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}