Interviews

Interview: Gábor Reisz – Explanation for Everything

Published on December 27, 2023

Winner of the top prize in the Orizzonti section at this year’s Venice Film Festival, Gábor Reisz‘s expansive, multi-viewpoint slow-burn features a deep political and moral divide that stretches well beyond the limits of regular Magyars (Hungarians) dining room table or and sensationalist news headlines. Explanation for Everything is a sharp, observational third feature film for the filmmaker. I got to sit down with Gábor Reisz at the 2023 Marrakech International Film Festival and talked about the DNA of his characters, the idea of having multiple POVs in his blueprint and the idea that a low-budget production perhaps boosted his creativity.

Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).