‘FJORD’ has surpassed 100 verified critics’ reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, maintaining a fresh score of 91%.
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Sebastian Stan on how being recognized for playing Bucky Barnes inspired him to explore different roles:
“I was in this Marvel thing for many years, and I looked one way, and I saw somehow my life get smaller on the streets here, walking around and felt to some extent I was getting pigeonholed in this thing.
[…] It still happens for that character, and it’s heartwarming, and it’s amazing, and it helped inspire me to want to seek out things that would allow for something else. Because, as Cristian Mungiu recently put it, this movie will liberate me and the audience to do something without this judgment of, ‘oh there’s that actor doing that thing you know.’”
(via @IndieWire)
‘FJORD’ director Cristian Mungiu praises Sebastian Stan’s performance:
“I agree with you. It’s the best thing that he did in his life, and I’m sure he can do even better. He just needs to be given the opportunity. I was editing this film for six months and I would always watch that scene again and again and say, ‘Well, that’s great.’”
(via @BlackGirlNerds)
Sebastian Stan on ‘Fjord’s message that children shouldn’t be forcefully separated from their families, pointing to real life examples in the US-Mexico border and Gaza:
“What I am reacting to is the absolutism as it applies to whatever it is, whether it’s a belief system, whether it’s a certain difference that we’re seeing in somebody else that’s not falling in line with the rest of us. The movie does make its case. I suspect it’s for one reason: that we all, on a primal level, understand that removing children from their family is not right.
Whether it’s in Norway and their breastfeeding baby, whether it’s in Norway from a “religious family,” or whether it’s on the border of Mexico, or in Gaza, or anywhere, it’s easy to go, “oh, they’re conservative. I’m done, I’m out.” The movie’s showing me that we are so programmed now to immediately label it black or white, red or blue, not seeing the thread that it’s for the kids. But I do feel like the family needs to also evolve.”
(via @IndieWire)