Spiral/ Spirala, the first feature film directed by
Cecília Felméri, a film director from Cluj, received the Special Mention of the Jury in the Competition 1-2 of the Warsaw International Film Festival. This section is dedicated to the filmmakers who
are at their first or second feature film. The award was given to the director on October 17, during the Closing Gala of the 36th edition. The film starring
Bogdan Dumitrache, Alexandra Borbély and Diána Magdolna Kiss started its festival journey in Warsaw, where it had its world premiere.
Spoken in Hungarian and shot near Budapest, based on a screenplay written by Cecília Felméri, Spiral is produced by Inforg-M&M Film (Hungary) and Hai-Hui
Entertainment (Romania). The actor Bogdan Dumitrache who plays the main character, learned his lines in Hungarian with the help of a language coach. He is accompanied by two of the most acclaimed Hungarian actresses: Alexandra Borbély won the Best Actress Award at the European Film Academy Awards for the
part she played in On Body and Soul and Diána Magdolna Kiss played in films such as Tall Tales, White God, Le Grand Cahier.
Spiral is a psychological drama about the difficulty of leaving the past behind and about how the ways our life is profoundly connected to the cycles of nature. Bence and Janka have a house by a lake and they live out of the tax that the people who want to fish here need to pay. Everything seems to go smoothly in this apparent paradise, but their relationship starts deteriorating and strangely enough, the life around the lake starts deteriorating as well.
“A captivating drama” IONCINEMA writes. “In Spiral, the dead people don`t return, but they haunt the fragile dreams of others.” the publication continues. Cecília Felméri`s strong debut begins with a camera travelling across the reflection of a Hungarian fishing lake – at once a familiar scene and yet dislocated by the perspective, ideas that will resonate throughput this psychological drama that finds strength in subtlety.”
Eyeforfilm.co.uk writes.“The images captured by György Réder harmonize well with the characters` emotions and create a unique atmosphere of a quiet, lonely place away from civilization.”
Film New Europe writes, descibing Cecília Felméri`s debut as “a mature work”.
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