In "Evolution", acclaimed filmmaking team Kornél Mundruczó and Kata Wéber ("Pieces of a Woman") return with a powerful drama tracing three generations of a family, from a surreal memory of World War II to modern day Berlin, unable to process their past in a society still coping with the wounds of its history.
Like the water that connects the episodes in this triptych, memory and identity are fluid, and how we relate to it can drown or buoy. The pain and stigma that trickles from Eva, to Lena and then Jonas is inexpressible, yet rendered with striking imagery by Mundruczó and a wrenchingly poignant yet acerbically ironic and personal script by Weber. While generational traumas find new expression in the present, the family in "Evolution" looks towards a more hopeful future.
Evolution
Evolution
Genre
Drama
Director
Kornél Mundruczó
Run time
1h 37min
Cast
Padmé Hamdemir, Annamária Láng
Genre
Drama
Director
Kornél Mundruczó
Run time
1h 37min
Cast
Padmé Hamdemir, Annamária Láng
In "Evolution", acclaimed filmmaking team Kornél Mundruczó and Kata Wéber ("Pieces of a Woman") return with a powerful drama tracing three generations of a family, from a surreal memory of World War II to modern day Berlin, unable to process their past in a society still coping with the wounds of its history.
Like the water that connects the episodes in this triptych, memory and identity are fluid, and how we relate to it can drown or buoy. The pain and stigma that trickles from Eva, to Lena and then Jonas is inexpressible, yet rendered with striking imagery by Mundruczó and a wrenchingly poignant yet acerbically ironic and personal script by Weber. While generational traumas find new expression in the present, the family in "Evolution" looks towards a more hopeful future.
Like the water that connects the episodes in this triptych, memory and identity are fluid, and how we relate to it can drown or buoy. The pain and stigma that trickles from Eva, to Lena and then Jonas is inexpressible, yet rendered with striking imagery by Mundruczó and a wrenchingly poignant yet acerbically ironic and personal script by Weber. While generational traumas find new expression in the present, the family in "Evolution" looks towards a more hopeful future.
Info
Rating
(none)
Production year
2021
Global distributor
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Local distributor
Pimedate Ööde Filmifestival MTÜ
In cinema
11/20/2021