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Picturenose’s James Drew finds Kornél Mundruczó's film a thing of beauty but lacking in content.Delta (2008)
Delta a Hungarian-German examination of 'unnatural' relationships, was one of the three films nominated for the European Parliament LUX Cinema Prize last year, and, although it didn’t win that, it was the recipient of an award from the International Federation of Film Critics at Cannes, as well as a nominee for the 2008 Palme D'Or.
Kornél Mundruczó's film examines the tragic consequences of a judgmental society. Mihail (Félix Lajkó) returns to the remote village of his birth (located on the Danube Delta), where he meets his sister Fauna (Orsolya Tóth), seemingly for the first time.
Orsi Tóth (Fauna) and Félix Lajkó (Mihail) in Delta
Their new-found affection for each other (she moves in and helps him build a riverside house) embarrasses the tight-knit community, who condemn the relationship as unnatural and begin jumping to all the wrong conclusions. The couple are ostracized, and worse is to follow...
Mundruczó, whose previous work (also starring Orsolya Tóth) was the gripping, dark, sound-and-fury musical Johanna (2005), embraces a more intimate style here, in presenting a small-town malaise that is drifting inexorably towards violence, not unlike the pastoral savagery that is at the heart of Peckinpah’s Straw Dogs (1971), or John Boorman’s Deliverance (1972).
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