Venice Title ‘Explanation for Everything’ Sells in Italy and Romania, Debuts Trailer Exploring ‘Tensions of a Polarized Society’ (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comNaman Ramachandran International sales agent Films Boutique has revealed the first sales and a trailer for Hungarian filmmaker Gábor Reisz’s “Explanation for Everything,” which will world premiere at the Venice Film Festival’s Horizons strand.
Films Boutique has sold the film to I Wonder Pictures for Italy and Filmtett for Romania. The film is Reisz’s third feature after the acclaimed “Some Inexplicable Reason” (2014) and “Bad Poems” (2018).
Set in summer in Budapest, the film follows high school student Abel who is struggling to focus on his final exams, while coming to the realization that he is hopelessly in love with his best friend Janka.
The studious Janka has her own unrequited love with married history teacher Jakab — who had a previous confrontation with Abel’s conservative father.
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