JUPITER’S MOON (Jupiter holdja, 2017)

Hungary-Germany. Direction: Kornél Mundruczó. Production: Viktória Petrányi, Viola Fügen, Michael Weber, Michel Merkt / Proton Cinema, Match Factory Productions, KNM, ZDF/Arte, Chimney. Screenplay: Kata Wéber. Photography: Marcell Rév. Music: Jed Kurzel. Edition: Dávid Jancsó. Cast: Merab Ninidze, Zsombor Jéger, György Cserhalmi, Mónika Balsai, Majd Asmi. Running time: 128 min

LANGUAGE: Hungarian, English / SUBTITLES: Spanish

The Hungarian director of the superb White Dog (2014) proposes this tale of the first superhero among the refugees left suffering at the doors of this impious Europe. A policeman bangs four shots into a Syrian youngster. The boy, instead of dying, rises up towards the sky. In the camp, a doctor of rather corrupt disposition decides that his ability to levitate is a gold-mine... A more than ambitious parable, some were reminded of Iñárritu, although the scene of the hotel shoot-out is rather more redolent of influence à la Michael Mann.