“It’s not hard to see the pattern in writer-director Cristian Mungiu’s movies of individuals being abused by inflexible institutions, but Fjord has caused a stir for flipping the script so that the victims are the people we usually see presented as the bullies. A friend described it as an inverted Footloose, and I honestly can’t do better than that.” – Spliced Personality Substack, 10/25/2026