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Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2010: Kornel Mundruczo’s The Frankenstein Project

A discovery I made at Cannes two years back, 2008’s Delta’s combined sheer beauty and poetic ugliness demonstrating the Hungarian filmmaker’s unique voice and Malickian approach. Love the idea of making a teen out to be a classic monster, of course in a nonliteral sense.

IONCINEMA.com Top 100 Films

#15. The Frankenstein Project

Director/Writer: Kornel Mundruczó
Producers: Viktória Petrányi (Delta)
Distributor: Rights Available.

The Gist: Inspired by Mary Shelley’s classic book, this is a re-interpretation of the story with the monster being replaced by a child, who returns home from a boarding school, struggling for the love of his family.….(more)

Cast: Rudolf Frecska, Kornél Mundruczó, Lili Monori, Miklós Székely B. and Kitty Csikos

Why is it on the list?A discovery I made at Cannes two years back, 2008’s Delta’s combined sheer beauty and poetic ugliness demonstrating the Hungarian filmmaker’s unique voice and Malickian approach. Love the idea of making a teen out to be a classic monster, of course in a nonliteral sense. 

Release Date/Status?Depending on how cutthroat the class of 2010 is for Cannes, this will either be featured in the main comp or fall into the Un Certain regard selection. If this receives rave reviews then this may find distribution in the U.S – but chances are slim.

 
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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).

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