“Dust”, interview with director Anke Blondé and screenwriter Angelo Tijssens
Anke Blondé and Angelo Tijssens present "Dust" in Competition at the 76th Berlinale, a drama on masculinity and corporate collapse.
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“At the Sea”, interview with director Kornél Mundruczó
Kornél Mundruczó: “For me, At the Sea is an ode to survival, it is about the possibility of breaking free from cycles of trauma”
Kornél Mundruczó is back into the competition of an A-level festival with “At the Sea”, competing for the Golden Bear at the 76th Berlinale.
The Hungarian director was in Venice competition back in 2020, with his first English-language film, “Pieces of a Woman” starring Vanessa Kirby, is back at directing an english language feature. In “At the Sea”, Amy Adams is playing the lead role as a woman trying to get back on her feet and rebuilding her own life also into her family dynamics after rehab.
Confronting the Past
“At the Sea” begins where other films would usually end. It focuses on the aftermath of a woman’s rehab journey—a woman who has always been the head of the family, carrying the weight of a business on her shoulders and the burden of a difficult legacy, like her father’s.
That weight has kept her from truly being a partner to her husband and has made her an absent mother. “At the Sea” follows its protagonist—an Amy Adams who is “unbelievably brave,” to quote the director—on a path that leads her to look back, through memory and gaze, at her past, in order to embrace the little girl she never managed to be.
Being a Mother
As director Kornél Mundruczó points out, “At the Sea” is also a film that reflects on what it means to be a mother, to be a parent, and how that role forces you to confront the shortcomings of those who raised you, as well as the traumas of a childhood—sometimes denied, as in the protagonist’s case.
Set against the backdrop of a family summer, the narrative explores the emotional and psychological upheavals that come with facing one’s history and making peace with it. The film’s focus on this transformative phase makes it a relatable and poignant portrait of resilience.
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“At the Sea”, interview with director Kornél Mundruczó Chiara Nicoletti
Plot
After rehab, Laura returns to her family’s Cape Cod house. Once the face of her late father’s renowned dance company, she built an identity tethered to his legacy and the cost of growing up in his shadow. Laura’s functional alcoholism, long ignored, finally reached a breaking point after a drunk-driving accident with her young son in the car. Now sober, she comes home changed, but to a family unprepared for this. Her husband Martin welcomes her cautiously, torn between devotion and a fear of losing her again. Their teenage daughter Josie meets Laura with hostility, while her son Felix remains distant. Over several days by the sea, family moments become pressure points, revealing buried anger, financial strain, and the fragility of reconciliation. As Laura’s former colleagues push her to return to the career she abandoned, she confronts a deeper question: who she is without the identity that once justified her self-destruction. The film unfolds as an intimate character study, charting Laura’s path from denial toward acceptance, an understanding that healing is not linear, and that love, sobriety, and family demand a willingness to remain present in uncertainty.
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