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Dir: Kornel Mundruczo.
Cast: Felix Lajko, Orsi Toth, Lili Monori, Sandor Gaspar
Description: Mihail returns home to an isolated village in the Danube delta. He reconnects with his mother, who has a new husband, and is working with him in the local pub. The prodigal son also meets Fauna, the sister he has never known, who is assaulted by the stepfather, sowing the seeds of tragedy. Mihail and Fauna move in together into an old hut and their feelings deepen, to the consternation of the locals. When the siblings throw a house-warming party, skeletons come tumbling out of the closet with horrifying repercussions for everyone.
Country: HUN/GER. 2008. 95mins
Take me to the river: Delta won an international critics’ prize at Cannes in 2008
Kornel Mundruczó’s film has been dubbed the Hungarian Deliverance — but even John Boorman’s classic wasn’t shot as beautifully as this.
Matyas Erdely, his cinematographer, delivers a stunning vision of the desolate landscapes, rivers and islets of Hungary’s Delta region as this tragic story unfolds. Melodrama is never far away but it is kept at bay by the intricate precision of the director’s work and a screenplay for which Bela Tarr, Hungary’s leading auteur, was a consultant.
Silent young Mihail (Félix Lajkó) returns to the countryside of his birth to find his mother (Lili Monori). She is now a widow, living with Fauna, a daughter that Mihail never knew about (played by the excellent Orsolya Tóth), and a new man (Sándor Gáspár), who is not too friendly towards the interloper. He becomes more incensed when Fauna decides to help Mihail build a house on stilts in the middle of the river.
There is a sense that mother’s new man wants Fauna himself, and also that sister and brother will become lovers. This is too much for the men of the local village, even though mother says the girl is old enough to know her own mind. Inevitably, violence ensues.
Mundruczó makes this cautionary tale a study of cruelty and intolerance that burns slowly but to considerable effect. It is a story virtually told with visuals alone, and includes a rape scene shown in long shot which has emotional force but absolutely no prurience. Delta is an extraordinary film which rightly won an international critics’ prize at Cannes last year.
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