David Cronenberg’s career-long taste for corporeal horror is as strong as ever in his new film, starring Viggo Mortensen and Léa Seydoux, but the narrative pulse is weak.
film profile] (2019), but he is certainly not waiting that long for his third effort:
Miracle, an independent film that he shot before the pandemic, will soon wrap post-production. The project is being staged by Apetri and
Oana Iancu through their new production company The East Company Productions (Romania). The co-production companies are Cineart TV Prague (Czech Republic), represented by
Viktor Schwarcz, and Tasse Film (Latvia), represented by
Aija Bērziņa.
The screenplay, written by Apetri, follows Cristina (
Ioana Bugarin), a 19-year-old nun, as she finds herself at a crossroads in her life. We see her sneaking out of her monastery in order to attend to an urgent matter at a hospital in the nearby city. Unable to solve her problem, she returns in the evening only to meet an unexpected fate on the way back. Later on, we meet a policeman, Marius (