Cineuropa is confirming that Hungarian filmmaker László Nemes (“Son of Saul”) has found funding for his third feature, “Orphan”, set to be a co-production involving Hungary, France, Germany and the UK. The goal is for shooting to start sometime this year,
This will be another historical film for Nemes. It will follow a young boy in Budapest in 1957, one year after the Hungarian Revolution, which saw a failed uprising against the USSR.
It’s been six years since Nemes’ last film, 2018’s “Sunset,” which premiered at the Venice Film Festival, but was seen as a disappointing follow-up to his landmark 2015 film “Son of Saul,” which won the Grand Prix at Cannes and the Best International film Oscar.
“Sunset” was inevitably going to be a letdown, even though, I found, it was actually a good film. Expectations were too high for it — there was no way it could match Son of Saul’s success which, in my books, still stands as one of the great filmmaking debuts of the last 30 years.