Based on a novel by Judita Šalgo, Minotaur is set in late-1990s Novi Sad whilst war rages in Kosovo. The Hungarian family at the heart of Szabolcs Tolnai’s film is demonstrative of a once outwards-facing multi-cultural environment that the filmmaker suggests has since been degraded by fear and the harsh realities of living in Serbia. Ana, the family’s matriarch, is a former editor of the daily newspaper’s culture pages – which, she remarks, “ceased… and culture sometime later”. With a long-missing son and errant former pop star husband, meanwhile slowly stripping their apartment of its possessions, she can do much worse than join the town’s neo-avantgardists in an ‘invisible’ art project.
The film’s absurd and autumnal hues finally burst into existential colour and performance, courtesy of Milance, an (eventually) Socrates-bearded poet. Resistance starts here!
Film details
- Countries of production
- Hungary, Serbia
- Year
- 2016
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2016
- Length
- 47"
- Medium/Format
- DCP
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