Provincia
2014 · 21m · Hungary
Directed by György Mór Kárpáti
Genres: drama
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, tender
Ottó, a Budapest food-store delivery driver, breaks down his van in the Hungarian countryside and finds himself stranded at an archaeological excavation site. Forced to stay the day, he falls into a tentative relationship with a sympathetic archaeologist.
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The scouts
Cannes Cinéfondation 2014, twenty-one minutes. Broken-down van at an archaeological dig, tentative connection with the archaeologist. The excavation-as-emotional-archaeology metaphor is on the nose, but Hungarian shorts have earned their reputation for patient observation.
A quietly assured diploma film from Ildikó Enyedi's class at the Budapest University of Theatre and Film Arts, selected for Cannes Cinéfondation 2014, that handles the weight of deep time and human transience with notable economy.
György Mór Kárpáti using an archaeological dig as structuring metaphor for two strangers' tentative connection — Roman history's patient excavation alongside unhurried emotional excavation. Cinéfondation Cannes 2014; quiet and confident.
Festivals
- Festival de Cannes 2014