'Beyond the Hills' tells a different kind of exorcism tale

World Cinema: Writer-director Cristian Mungiu opted for an approach 'very close to life' and kept his actors very close to their characters.In 2005, Romania's equivalent of the sensational O.J. Simpson trial rocked Eastern Europe when a priest and four nuns from a convent in the country's remote Moldavia region went to prison for accidentally killing a young woman during an exorcism. The case captivated the public, attracted interest from filmmaker Roman Polanski and ultimately inspired writer-d...