White God
Director: Kornél Mundruczó
Writers: Kornél Mundruczó, Kata Weber, Viktoria Petranyi
Producers: Viktória Petrányi, Eszter Gyárfás
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Zsofia Psotta, Sandor Zsoter, Lili Horvath
It was...
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.
Cannes announced 16 films in the Main Competition today and the Un Certain Regard is perhaps complete but could fit two more titles in, but as expected, Terrence Malick's film is still in limbo. Apart from that frustrating example, there are about three to five available slots in the Main Comp and some hefty titles that are missing in action. I've compiled a list below, but worth mentioning are blatant omissions such as Julian Schnabel's Miral, Kornel Mundruczo's Frankenstein Project, Ken Loach's Route Irish and perhaps even Bruce Robinson's The Rum Diary.
I don't normally associate remakes, trilogies, biopics or adaptions with films from the Croisette, but this year we could receive a little bit of all four if Aleksandr Sokurov's Faust, Kornel Mundruczo's The Frankenstein Project, Wong Kar-Wai's The Grand Master and Im Sang-soo's The Housemaid make the cut. Here are the second batch of predictions.