There’s the old adage that filmmakers should never work with dogs or children. For Hungary’s Kornél Mundruczó, he’s boldly defying that claim with his latest feature, White God. Premiering at Cannes Film Festival earlier this year (where it won the Prize Un Certain Regard Award), it’ll stop by Sundance next year before heading into theaters in the spring, and today the first trailer has arrived.
Hungary’s Oscar entry this year, it tells the story of a canine and its owner attempting to reunite, but this looks to be far from Homeward Bound. Rather, it takes on a somewhat menacing, intense-looking approach with political undertones. Starring Zsófia Psotta, Sándor Zsótér, and Lili Horváth, check out the trailer and poster below and return for our review next year.
Winner of the Prize Un Certain Regard Award at this year’s Cannes Festival, Kornel Mundruczo’s newest film is a story of the indignities visited upon animals by their supposed “human superiors,” but it’s also an brutal, beautiful metaphor for the political and cultural tensions sweeping contemporary Europe. When young Lili is forced to give up her beloved dog Hagen, because it’s mixed-breed heritage is deemed ‘unfit’ by The State, she and the dog begin a dangerous journey back towards each other. At the same time, all the unwanted, unloved and so-called ‘unfit’ dogs rise up under a new leader, Hagen, the one-time housepet who has learned all too well from his ‘Masters’ in his journey through the streets and animal control centers how to bite the hands that beats him …
White God opens on March 27th, 2015.