Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2015: #66. Emir Kusturica’s On the Milky Road

On the Milky Road

Director: Emir Kusturica// Writer: Emir Kusturica

We had two Palme d’Or winner (Time of the Gypsies in 1998; Underground in 1995) Emir Kusturica pegged to unveil his latest film, On the Milky Road at Cannes in 2014, but no such luck. It looks like Kusturica took about a year’s break in filming (which isn’t completely uncustomary for him), which resumed summer of 2014. Now, a poster has debuted and we’re thinking this should finally be ready for 2015, especially since Kusturica has recently announced plans for a new project, a French/Belarus co-production set to film mid 2015. The films is inspired by Kusturica’s short film Our Life, and consists of three stories: the first story is about a soldier with a task to get milk in the nearby village and take it to fellow soldiers. The second is about a woman who gives him the milk, and the third is about an ex-soldier (now a monk) who, when he finishes all daily duties, climbs up the cliff with a bucket of rocks to empty it.

Cast: Monica Bellucci, Emir Kusturica, Sergej Trifunovic

Producers: Lucas Akoskin, Alex Garcia, Paula Vaccaro

U.S. Distributor: Rights Available.

Release Date: If it’s finally ready, we can’t see any reason why Kusturica wouldn’t be granted a slot in the main competition at Cannes.

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