Tender Son - The Frankenstein Project

Kornél Mundruczó directs and plays the film maker Viktor in Tender Son - The Frankenstein Project. During a casting session, he becomes intrigued by the young, inaccessible and maladjusted Rudi. This 19-year-old boy has just returned from a boarding school and is trying to live with his far-from-welcoming mother and stepfather. Another inhabitant of their house is Magda, a young girl who Rudi decides is the woman of his life. And then we still have Viktor, the father who deserted him and now wants to restore the bond. The feelings that come to the surface in this boy brought up without love turn out to be difficult for him to come to terms with.
Mundruczó earlier wrote the script, loosely based on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, for a theatre play, for which he toured Hungary. Just like Frankenstein, Rudi turns out to be a monster formed by his creators who finally become his victims. The film was screened in Cannes in the official competition.