After the morning’s quick onslaught of Cannes-related material — the line-up, the images, and, most cherished of all, the Twitter debates about what Thierry Frémaux either got right or how he ruined cinema — a few items are at risk of getting lost in the shuffle. With that in mind, let’s direct you towards a few items that give a taste of what’s to come at the festival and, fortunately, over the next several months (or year) in film: a clip from Cristian Mungiu‘s 4 Months and Beyond the Hills follow-up Family Photos (also going by Graduation); a trailer for Na Hong-jin‘s thriller Goksung; and a trailer for Francisco Márquez and Andrea Testa‘s The Long Night of Francisco Sanctis.
See the previews below, along with synopses of each title:
A Palme d’Or winner for “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days,” Mungiu reportedly scaled back after “Beyond the Hills” (a Cannes screenplay winner), discreetly shooting his latest last summer in Romania. Following films about abortion and forbidden lesbian love, Mungiu’s new project is remarkable in that it centers around a male protagonist, a small-town doctor played by Adrian Titieni.
The gritty Korean genre director has been to Cannes twice before, with “The Chaser” (midnight, 2008) and “The Yellow Sea” (Un Certain Regard, 2011). Set in a remote village set into turmoil by a series of deaths, his ultra-stylish new film is told from the perspective of a police detective who comes to suspect that the crimes have something to do with his own daughter.
Screening in Cannes by way of Buenos Aires’ Bafici festival, this ’70s-set adaptation of the Humberto Costantini novel concerns a man who must decide whether to help two people wanted by the military under Jorge Rafael Videla’s dictatorship.