?With Bela Tarr's "The Turin Horse" not ready in time for Cannes, the Croisette turns its attention to a younger crop of Hungarian directors this year. Their films further emphasize the generation gap between the helmers who got their start during Communism and those who have come since, with the latter group increasingly finding recognition on the fest circuit, though still no real audience at home,? writes Boyd Van Hoeij for Variety.
Ágnes Kocsis has brought here sophomore feature Adrienn Pal to the Cannes? Un Certain Regard, after she ?wowed? audiences at the festival with her mother-daughter film Fresh Air in 2006.
Kornél Mundruczó is in the main competition with his film Tender Son: The Frankenstein Project. Mundruczó is at the festival for the third time, after he ?took the town by storm with his divisive Joan of Arc opera Johanna? in the Un Certain Regard category in 2005, then entered the main competition with Delta in 2008.
Van Hoeij also notes Szabolcs Hajdu?s ?sex slavery drama? Biblioteque Pascal which is screening as a market title in Cannes.
?This year's Hungarian filmmakers in Cannes?are part of a new batch of helmers born in the 1970s who made their first feature in the last decade. Having lived their entire adult lives after the fall of the wall in 1989, they have no need for the encoded socio-political commentary and signature long takes that put Magyar cinema on the map,? says Van Hoeij.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI) / Photo: MTI
