Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #66. Emir Kusturica’s On the Milky Road

On the Milky Road

Director: Emir Kusturica
Writer: Emir Kusturica

We’ve pegged Serbian auteur Emir Kusturica‘s On the Milky Road as a possible release for the past three years. The two time Palme d’Or winner (Time of the Gypsies in 1998; Underground in 1995) hasn’t completed a feature since 2007’s Promise Me This. His long gestating latest is based on his short film Our Life and “unfolds as a three-part narrative recounting three periods in the life of a man (Kusturica): his time as a lucky milkman during the war, perilous escapades and blossoming romance with the woman he loves (Bellucci), and his later life as a monk, looking back over the tumultuous past – both his and his country’s.”

Cast: Emir Kusturica, Monica Bellucci

Production Co./Producers: Ag Studios’Alex Garcia, Bn Films’ Lucas Akoskin, Pinball London’s Paula Vaccaro, Rasta Intl’s Emir Kusturica.

U.S. Distributor: Rights available TBD (domestic) Wild Bunch (international)

Release Date: Kusturica aims to compete at Cannes, where he’d have a chance at winning a third Palme d’Or (although, if he isn’t offered a comp slot we see him waiting for Venice, like Roy Andersson in 2014).