Director of Venice-Bound ‘Ordinary Failures’ on Creating its Dark, Eerie World, Trailer Launches (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comWill Tizard Contributor Spontaneous flames, dysfunctional warning alerts and a sense of impending catastrophe feature in Hungarian-Romanian director Cristina Grosan’s sophomore feature “Ordinary Failures,” premiering in Venice Days, a sidebar to the Venice Film Festival.
Variety is launching the trailer for the film (below), which is being sold by Totem Films. The Czech-Hungarian-Italian-Slovak co-production, filmed entirely in the Czech Republic, mainly in Prague but also featuring Pilsen, is based on a screenplay by Klára Vlasáková, which Grosan says evolved for three years and continued morphing right up through the shoot.
The ominous tale revolves around the lives of three strangers: a teenager, a young mother, and a woman in her early sixties, who cross paths during one day in which their city is rocked by mysterious explosions. “I spent three years developing this story together with screenwriter Klára Vlasáková,” says Grosan, “during which plenty of input reached me, both fortunate and less fortunate, if we think of the pandemic and the war in Ukraine.
These recent events started to resemble situations in our script, where authorities contradict each other, and chaos reigns.” Her process is to remain flexible and allow story and characters to morph under the influence of many hands, Grosan says. “During the development of the screenplay I go about my day with my eyes wide open.
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