“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 yr 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 greatest image.
Directed by Romanian filmmaker Cristian Mungiu, “Fjord” stars Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve because the dad and mom of a Romanian household with strict spiritual beliefs who transfer to a small village in Norway. When bruises are observed on their daughter’s physique in school, their 5 kids are taken away from them and a authorized saga ensues. Selection’s Man Lodge called the film a “brilliantly knotted social drama, writing that “everything is happening at all times in ‘Fjord,’ as befits a film sharply attuned to the world’s ever-expanding possibilities for movement, misunderstanding and conflict.”
Mungiu beforehand received Cannes’ highest honor, the Palme d’Or, in 2007 with “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days,” and was later awarded the competition’s greatest screenplay prize in 2012 for “Beyond the Hills” and one of the best director prize in 2016 for “Graduation.”
“Fjord” prolonged a outstanding 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 Sadness,” Justine Triet’s “Anatomy of a Fall,” Sean Baker’s “Anora” and Jafar Panahi’s “It Was Just an Accident.”
