Money Makes the World Burn Down
Collective is a good documentary about corruption, manslaughter, murder, bacteria, and poison in mid-2010s Romania.
Collective shouldn’t go unnoticed among last month’s Oscar nominees—besides competing for both Best Documentary Feature and Best International Feature, it was also the first Romanian film to be nominated for any Oscar at all. An international first among several, but it didn’t win, and an older South Korean actress and a Chinese-American director winning in top categories, even in a down year, drowned out any noise
Collective could’ve made in the two days or so when people cared about the Oscars this year (compare to 2020’s jubilant ceremony culminating in an historic win for Bong Joon-Ho and his