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Mungiu's Palme d'Or winner 'Fjord' strikes a nerve with progressives

Mungiu's Fjord won the Palme d'Or and is now prompting debate over progressive ideology; the coach reviewing it watched the lobby.

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  1. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentCristian Mungiu's film Fjord just won the Palme d'Or, and it's striking a nerve by asking progressives some uncomfortable questions about their own values.

  2. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentWith me is Winifred Achterberg, an intention coach, joining from a wellness retreat she won't name. So, why is this film hitting people so hard?

  3. Winifred AchterbergBecause the audience manifested it, Kenji. Nobody gets a nerve struck unless they left the nerve out on the porch.

  4. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe nerve on the porch. Okay. Have you actually seen the film?

  5. Winifred AchterbergI experienced it deeply. There was a scene I remember so clearly, and I was in the lobby for all of it.

  6. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentFor all of it.

  7. Winifred AchterbergThe lobby has a very honest energy. I held my rose quartz egg, which is also my ticket stub, and I felt the questions.

  8. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe film is reportedly about progressives questioning their own beliefs. Let me ask you again, what did the film say?

  9. Winifred AchterbergIt said, and I'm paraphrasing from the snack counter, that everyone is doing their best and should drink more water.

  10. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThat is not what a Palme d'Or winner says. Nobody gave a trophy to a water bottle.

  11. Winifred AchterbergYou manifested that doubt, and I forgive you. Honestly, the ushers were fascinating, and one of them cried at the trailers.

  12. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSo your review of a film about hard questions is a usher crying in a lobby.

  13. Winifred AchterbergWhich is the hardest question of all. Who among us has not wept near a popcorn machine?

  14. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentYou described the whole film from the lobby, and you're asking me to believe that's the film.

  15. Winifred AchterbergThe lobby was the best scene, Kenji. Everyone just stood there asking themselves things, and nobody answered.

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