Jupiter’s Moon (15)
Sat 24 Feb – Thu 1 Mar
Sat 24, 2pm & 5.30pm
Wed 28, 8.30pm
Thu 1, 8.30pm
Dir. Kornel Mundruczo, Hungary, 2017, 129 mins, some subtitles.
Cast. Merab Ninidze, Zsombor Jeger, Monika Balsai, Gyorgy Cserhhalmi.
The director of the critically acclaimed White God has created this riveting Palme d’Or nominated supernatural thriller. A young refugee called Aryan is shot while illegally trying to cross the Hungarian border to escape his war-torn home. While tending him back to health, a doctor at a refugee camp discovers that Aryan has gained an extraordinary talent – he can levitate at will. The doctor offers to smuggle Aryan out of the camp if, in return, he helps him make some money by using his new miraculous gift. Mundruczo marks himself as one his generation’s most visionary directors by touching on eternally mythic themes and contemporary political issues alike with visually mind-bending aplomb.