Film: Darkness on the edge of town

Reviewed: Beyond The Hills

**Directed by Cristian Mungiu**

**Selected cinemas, cert 15A**

**Rating:** 2/5

Romanian director Cristian Mungiu won the Palme D'Or in 2007 with 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, a corrosive drama about two young women searching for an illegal back-street abortion in the last days of Nicolae Ceausescu's totalitarian regime.

Mungiu's film formed the vanguard for what would become known as the Romanian New Wave, a group of filmmakers ...