“Fjord,” a searing family drama that won the Palme d’Or at Cannes Film Festival, will hit theaters in the fall.
Neon, which acquired the movie a year ago, has slated “Fjord” for Oct. 9, the same release date as the studio’s prior Palme winners including “Parasite,” “Anora” and “Anatomy of a Fall.” All of those films went on to score Oscar nominations, with “Parasite” and “Anora” landing the statue for best picture.
Directed by Romanian filmmaker Cristian Mungiu, “Fjord” stars Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve as the parents of a Romanian family with strict religious beliefs who move to a small village in Norway. When bruises are noticed on their daughter’s body at school, their five children are taken away from them and a legal saga ensues. Variety’s Guy Lodge called the film a “brilliantly knotted social drama, writing that “everything is happening at all times in ‘Fjord,’ as befits a film sharply attuned to the world’s ever-expanding possibilities for movement, misunderstanding and conflict.”
Mungiu previously won Cannes’ highest honor, the Palme d’Or, in 2007 with “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days,” and was later awarded the festival’s best screenplay prize in 2012 for “Beyond the Hills” and the best director prize in 2016 for “Graduation.”
“Fjord” extended a remarkable winning streak for Neon, which has scored a record seven consecutive Palme d’Ors starting with Bong Joon Ho’s “Parasite” and continuing with Julia Ducournau’s “Titane,” Ruben Östlund’s “Triangle of Sadness,” Justine Triet’s “Anatomy of a Fall,” Sean Baker’s “Anora” and Jafar Panahi’s “It Was Just an Accident.”
