Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2010: Marian Crisan’s Morgen

Winner of the Palme d’or for his 2008 short film Megatron, his first screenplay received praise from fellow Romanian filmmaker Cristian Mungiu. Looks like one more name to withhold from this country.

Eric Lavallée

Published on January 15, 2010

#47. Morgen

Director/Writer: Marian Crisan
Producers: Mandragora’s Anca Puiu and Slot Machine’s Marianne Slot.
Distributor: Rights Available.

Photo Exclusive: Marian Crisan’s MORGEN (Photo credit) Cristi Magyar.

The Gist: This tells the story of a man living by the Romanian-Hungarian border who likes to fish but whose catch one day is a Kurdish immigrant.….(more)

Cast: I imagine the use of local actors and non-actors.

Why is it on the list?: Winner of the Palme d’or for his 2008 short film Megatron, Crisan’s voice as a filmmaker appears to employ the same aesthetics and emulate some of the concerns addressed by his fellow filmmaker peers (situating the country with the influences of the East and West). Should continue the excellent wave of films from Romania.

Release Date/Status?: Cannes Un Certain Regard section would be a suitable start for this debut. If quality is top notch then showings in North America’s TIFF and NYFF.

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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).