Oral exams. A question. Panic, fever, sweating. As young Abel grasps for words, his teacher asks him a seemingly innocent question that changes everything. Gábor Reisz’s third feature outing is set in contemporary Hungary, but given the rising social tensions throughout the world, his Explanation for Everything is – unfortunately – a universal story. Reisz approaches the subject of strongly divided opinions, of a societal powder keg ready to explode, with a sense of humor and understated ease. And yet he does not shy away from showing the deep and difficult-to-heal wounds that divide families and strangers alike. Winner of the Orizzonti Award for Best Film at last year’s Venice Film Festival.
Marek Čermák
152 min / Color, DCP
Director Gábor Reisz
/ Screenplay Gábor Reisz
/ Dir. of Photography Kristóf Becsey
/ Music András Kálmán, Gábor Reisz
/ Sound Richard Fűlek, Péter Balogh
/ Editor Vanda Gorácz, Gábor Reisz
/ Art Director Zsófia Tasnádi
/ Producer Júlia Berkes
/ Production Proton Cinema, MPhilms
/ Cast Gáspár Adonyi-Walsh, István Znamenák, András Rusznák, Rebeka Hatházi, Eliza Sodró, Lilla Kizlinger, Krisztina Urbanovits
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Gábor Reisz (1980, Budapest). Selected filmography: For Some Inexplicable Reason (VAN valami furcsa és megmagyarázhatatlan, 2014), Bad Poems (Rossz versek, 2018), Explanation for Everything (Magyarázat mindenre, 2023).
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