Palme d’Or-winning auteur Cristian Mungiu is making his English-language movie debut with Neon. Mungiu’s upcoming household drama “Fjord” starring Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve has landed on the powerhouse indie distributor forward of Cannes.
“Fjord” follows the Gheorghiu household, comprised of a Romanian father (Stan) and a Norwegian mom (Reinsve), as they settle into new life in a distant Norwegian village, the place the mom was born. The movie’s official synopsis reads: “They rapidly bond with the Halbergs, who dwell within the neighboring home close to the bay and regardless of their very completely different upbringings, the youngsters of each households quickly develop into shut pals. When the Gheorghius are suspected of disturbing habits, their lives are thrown into chaos as they develop into the middle of small city scrutiny.”
Stan and Reinsve beforehand starred in Aaron Schimberg’s “A Completely different Man” collectively; that is their second characteristic enjoying a pair onscreen. Manufacturing for “Fjord” has wrapped in Norway.
Goodfellas is dealing with worldwide gross sales on the movie with Neon buying rights for the U.S., Canada, U.Ok., Australia, and New Zealand. Neon will launch the movie theatrically within the U.S. nationwide. The deal was negotiated by Sarah Colvin for Neon and Eva Diederix for Goodfellas.
“Fjord” is a really worldwide characteristic, and is billed as being a Norway-Sweden-Denmark-Finland-France-Romania coproduction. The movie is produced by Mobra Movies, Eye-Eye Photos, Why Not Productions and Goodfellas, alongside Snowglobe, Aamu Movie Firm, Storage Movie, FilmGate Movies and Movie i Huge (supported by Eurimages and Inventive Europe MEDIA).
“4 Months, 3 Weeks and a pair of Days” director Mungiu already has one Palme d’Or to his title, and he’s becoming a member of forces with a shingle with some huge Cannes wins underneath its belt. The distributor has distributed the final 5 Palme d’Or winners out of Cannes, together with Sean Baker’s Finest Image winner “Anora” in 2024.
This yr, the studio will debut Joachim Trier’s “Sentimental Worth” additionally starring Reinsve, and Julia Ducournau’s “Alpha.” Their different titles inclue Raoul Peck’s “Orwell: 2+2=5” and Michael Angelo Covino’s “Splitsville,” starring Dakota Johnson and Adria Arjona which Neon additionally produced.
Stan beforehand advised IndieWire that working with Mungiu was an unbelievable expertise in his filmography. “With all of those smaller indies, I all the time really feel even whereas I’m on the aircraft going there, I’m all the time frightened, ‘Is the financing going to return by?’ It’s on its method,” Stan stated. “He’s been up there with me for just a few years with filmmakers from Romania the place I’ve been calling him looking for a option to work with him, the place I can communicate Romanian as effectively. We lastly discovered this story, which is a couple of Romanian household who’s moved to Norway after which results in this very sophisticated trial. There’s a system [that] investigates instances if there’s ever been bodily abuse within the family between the dad and mom or the youngsters. They go investigating the household for an incident, and it results in this trial. It occurred earlier than the pandemic, and it turned nationwide information. There have been a variety of non secular communities that got here to their aspect, and it’s actually fascinating and fairly sophisticated.”