Enyedi and Mundruczó selected to Cannes
THE STORY OF MY WIFE and EVOLUTION have been selected to the Official Selection of the 74th Festival de Cannes.
The Story of My Wife a film by Ildikó Enyedi in Official Competition
The Story of My Wife / A feleségem története
DIRECTED BY ILDIKÓ ENYEDI
PRODUCED BY MÓNIKA MÉCS, ERNŐ MESTERHÁZY, ANDRÁS MUHI / INFORG-M&M FILM with KOMPLIZEN FILM, MOLIWOOD, PYRAMIDE FILMS
This is a variation on the legend of the Flying Dutchman set in the 1920s. The sea captain Jacob Störr makes a bet with a friend that he will marry the first woman who enters the café. In walks Lizzy.
Milán Füst’s novel was first published in Hungary in 1942 but was only translated into English in the late 1980s, when it became a literary sensation.
Hungarian director Enyedi’s previous film, On Body and Soul, won the Berlinale’s Golden Bear in 2017 and was nominated in the Oscar foreign-language category (since rebranded best international film).
The Story of My Wife (Photo: Hanna Csata)
Evolution / Evolúció a film by Kornél Mundruczó in Cannes Premiere
DIRECTED BY KORNÉL MUNDRUCZÓ
PRODUCED BY VIKTÓRIA PETRÁNYI / PROTON CINEMA with MATCH FACTORY PRODUCTION
In EVOLUTION, acclaimed filmmaking team Kornél Mundruczó and Kata Wéber (PIECES OF A WOMAN) return with a powerful drama tracing three generations of a family, from a surreal memory of World War II to modern day Berlin, unable to process their past in a society still coping with the wounds of its history.
Like the water that connects the episodes in this triptych, memory and identity are fluid, and how we relate to it can drown or buoy. The pain and stigma that trickles from Eva, to Lena and then Jonas is inexpressible, yet rendered with striking imagery by Mundruczó and a wrenchingly poignant yet acerbically ironic and personal script by Weber.
While generational traumas find new expression in the present, the family in EVOLUTION looks towards a more hopeful future.
https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/festival/films/evolution
