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Evolution

Play trailer Poster for Evolution 2021,  1h 37m,  Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
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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.

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Steve Pond TheWrap Jul 14, 2021
It's an odd, small and moving work that asks disquieting questions about identity after decades of trauma. Go to Full Review
Peter Debruge Variety Jul 13, 2021
Anti-Semitic attitudes may not have disappeared from Germany, but Mundruczó and Wéber want audiences to consider how much this family has adapted across three generations. Go to Full Review
Jonathan Romney Screen International Jul 13, 2021
Emotionally intense and visually arresting, Evolution is rewarding viewing for those willing to enter its austere territory, but the technical virtuosity leaves it on the edge being perceived as of something of an academic exercise. Go to Full Review
Felipe Rodríguez Torres Caimán Cuadernos de Cine Nov 18, 2021
Staging decisions... reverberate through time and footage. [Full review in Spanish] Go to Full Review
Stephen Saito Moveable Fest Jul 18, 2021
A potent reminder that this history should never be forgotten, but revealing of how those connected to it are never allowed to forget. Go to Full Review
Ignacio Navarro El antepenúltimo mohicano Jul 16, 2021
3/5
The planning is consistent with the temporal urgency and the outcome is impressive. [Full review in Spanish] Go to Full Review
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Kornél Mundruczó

Director

Lili Monori

Éva

Annamária Láng

Léna

Goya Rego

Jónás

Padmé Hamdemir

Yasmin

Jule Böwe

Frau Clausen

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Synopsis 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.
Director
Kornél Mundruczó
Producer
Viola Fügen, Michael Weber, Viktória Petrányi
Screenwriter
Kata Wéber
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Hungarian
Runtime
1h 37m
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