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Evolution

Evolution

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Status

Released

Release Date

Aug 1, 2021

Runtime

1h 37m

Genres

Drama

User Score

60%

Original Title

Evolúció

Production Companies

The Match Factory, Proton Cinema, ZDF/Arte, Film- und Medienstiftung NRW

Director

Kornél Mundruczó

Description

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