For The Cannes International Film Festival competition on Tuesday, May 20th
DELTA (1h32) Directed by Kornél Mundruczó
Hungary – Germany
Eddie Cockrell for Variety:
Delta is a beautifully atmospheric vessel that will seem infinitely deep to some and chafingly dry to others. Pic is sure to be in demand at high-profile fests…”
A quiet young man returns to the wild, isolated landscape of the Delta. It is a labyrinth of waterways, small islands and over-grown vegetation, where the villagers are cut off from the outside world. The young man, who has been away since early childhood, is introduced to a sister he never knew he had. She is frail and timid, but resolute when she decides to join him in his run-down hut on the shore. They eventually become lovers, with rejection by the family and ridicule from the coarse villagers leading to tragedy.
Together they build a house on stilts in the middle of the river, far away from everyone else. One day, they invite the villagers over to share a meal together, but it becomes apparent that the coarse locals do not accept their “unnatural” relationship.
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