Gábor Reisz’s new film, titled Magyarázat mindenre (Explanation for Everything), will have its world premiere at the 80th Venice International Film Festival, taking place between August 30 and September 9.
According to a statement by Cirko Film, the distributor of the movie, the festival’s director, Alberto Barbera, announced the news during the festival’s press conference on Tuesday.
Gábor Reisz, known for his previous films VAN valami furcsa és megmagyarázhatatlan’ (For Some Inexplicable Reason) and Rossz versek (Bad Poems), will present his third feature film in the official selection of the A-category festival. The film’s director, cast, producer, and crew members will accompany the film to Venice.
Magyarázat mindenre paints a realistic picture of a divided country through the story of an 18-year-old boy whose controversial secondary school graduation exam becomes a turning point.
In the story, during the summer in Budapest, Ábel should be preparing for his school leaving exam, but he realises he is in love with his best friend, Janka. Janka is a good student, so she is not worried about the exam, but she is hopelessly in love with their history teacher, Jakab. Jakab has a family and struggles to survive as an educator in Hungary, and he has previously clashed with Ábel’s conservative father. The tensions of a divided society surface when Ábel’s history exam turns into a national scandal, and he finds himself caught between the two sides, in the midst of it all, still in love.
The main roles are played by Gáspár Adonyi-Walsh, István Znamenák, András Rusznák, Rebeka Hatházi, Eliza Sodró, Lilla Kizlinger, and Krisztina Urbanovits. The film is directed and written by Gábor Reisz, with Éva Schulze as co-screenwriter.
Hungarian audiences will have the chance to see the film for the first time
at a pre-premiere screening with a public event at Cirko-Gejzír Cinema on 22 September.
The film will also be screened with a public event at Cinema City Mammut on 23 September. Magyarázat mindenre will be released in Hungarian cinemas on 5 October , distributed by Cirko Film, as stated in the press release.
The organisers of the 80th Venice International Film Festival announced the official programme on Tuesday, 25 July including the inclusion of Gábor Reisz’s new film and Dorka Vermes’ first feature film, Árni.
The programme will feature several films by US directors, including David Fincher, Sofia Coppola, Ava DuVernay, Michael Mann, Bradley Cooper, and Wes Anderson. Additionally, a strong selection of films from Europe, Latin America, and Asia will be showcased, as reported by the Hollywood news portal Variety.com.
The festival’s artistic director, Alberto Barbera, mentioned during the press conference on Tuesday that the past week has been a bit turbulent due to the actors’ strike, which unexpectedly coincided with the writers’ strike. However, fortunately, only one film, Challengers, had to be excluded from the planned programme due to the actors’ strike. As the opening film, Challengers was withdrawn by its distributor because Zendaya, the film’s star, couldn’t participate in the film’s promotion, and therefore, its premiere was postponed to the spring.
Barbera also expressed hope that although SAG-AFTRA union members cannot attend the festival, independent American production actors will be present.
Netflix will present three of its films at the festival, including David Fincher’s thriller The Killer starring Michael Fassbender, Bradley Cooper’s biographical film Maestro about Leonard Bernstein, and the Chilean film El Conde by Pablo Larrain, which allegorically portrays dictator Augusto Pinochet as a vampire. Ava DuVernay’s Origin and Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla will compete for the festival’s main prize, the Golden Lion, along with Michael Mann’s car racing drama Ferrari, featuring Adam Driver in the lead role.
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Source: Hungarian Conservative/MTI
