Director Radu Muntean strands three aid volunteers, an elderly hitchhiker and their 4x4 in a boggy forest in the titular region of Romania, with results at once darkly comic, tense and humanising.

[A] tense, gripping, darkly funny and ultimately compassionate movie...

Instead of a nightmare, Muntean and his collaborators present a pseudo-naturalistic stress dream.

... "Întregalde" seeks to imbed the audience with the interpersonal conflict which drives the film. The issue is that, despite a clear desire to convey a sense of caring, of humanity, there’s no tension present to push the point through.