“Fjord,” a searing household drama that received the Palme d’Or at Cannes Movie Competition, will hit theaters within the fall.
Neon, which acquired the film a 12 months in the past, has slated “Fjord” for Oct. 9, the identical launch date because the studio’s prior Palme winners together with “Parasite,” “Anora” and “Anatomy of a Fall.” All of these movies went on to attain Oscar nominations, with “Parasite” and “Anora” touchdown the statue for finest image.
Directed by Romanian filmmaker Cristian Mungiu, “Fjord” stars Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve because the mother and father of a Romanian household with strict non secular beliefs who transfer to a small village in Norway. When bruises are observed on their daughter’s physique at college, their 5 youngsters are taken away from them and a authorized saga ensues. Selection’s Man Lodge known as the movie a “brilliantly knotted social drama, writing that “every part is occurring always in ‘Fjord,’ as befits a movie sharply attuned to the world’s ever-expanding potentialities for motion, misunderstanding and battle.”
Mungiu beforehand received Cannes’ highest honor, the Palme d’Or, in 2007 with “4 Months, 3 Weeks and a pair of Days,” and was later awarded the pageant’s finest screenplay prize in 2012 for “Past the Hills” and the very best director prize in 2016 for “Commencement.”
“Fjord” prolonged a exceptional successful streak for Neon, which has scored a file seven consecutive Palme d’Ors beginning with Bong Joon Ho’s “Parasite” and persevering with with Julia Ducournau’s “Titane,” Ruben Östlund’s “Triangle of Disappointment,” Justine Triet’s “Anatomy of a Fall,” Sean Baker’s “Anora” and Jafar Panahi’s “It Was Simply an Accident.”
