JUPITER’S MOON

JUPITER’S MOON (JUPITER HOLDJA), 2017
Hungary, Germany | DCP, Color, 129’ |Hungarian, English
Director: Kornél Mundruczó
Cast: Merab Ninidze, Zsombor Jéger, György Cserhalmi

In this Hungarian film, which competed at the Cannes Film Festival, a Syrian refugee is shot while trying to flee the woods, and then miraculously resists gravity to gain the power to rise in the air. While examining the right-wing politics of current day Hungarian society in a reverse style like magical realism, the film presents a superhero-type story using a visual language, which in the director’s words "reflects the chaos, tension and pressure [I] feel every day in Budapest." At the end of the film, we, on the other hand are left alone with the question, "What is morality?"