EXCLUSIVE: Here’s an exclusive clip from Kornél Mundruczó’s At the Sea, which is screening In Competition in Berlin on Monday.
The American-Hungarian co-production, which was written by Kata Wéber, stars Amy Adams, Murray Bartlett, Chloe East, Brett Goldstein, Dan Levy, Redding L. Munsell, Jenny Slate and Rainn Wilson.
The story follows Laura (Adams) who 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.
The film unfolds as an intimate character study, charting Laura’s path from denial towards acceptance, an understanding that healing is not linear and that love, sobriety and family demand a willingness to remain present in uncertainty.
At the Sea functions as the second film in a loosely interpreted triptych alongside Mundruczó’s Pieces of a Woman and upcoming A Place to Be, which all explore states of crisis across three phases in a woman’s life: early adulthood, midlife and later life.
The project is produced by Ryder Picture Company, AR Content and Hammerstone Studios Production in association with Ashland Hill Media Finance, LB Entertainment, Proton Cinema Kft., Jeff Rice Films, Carte Blanche, Thomasville Pictures and Mk2 Films.
Producers are Alexander Rodnyansky, Aaron Ryder, Andrew Swett, Stuart Manashil, Mundruczó and Alex Lebovici.
The project is exec produced by Viktória Petrányi, Zsofi Oblath, Wéber, Paul J. Diaz, Maria Breese, Lee Broda, Jeff Rice, Andria Spring, David Hillary, Jonathan Oakes, Michael Kupisk, Cole Garson, Lara Ta, Konstantin Korenchuk, Joe Simpson, Simon Williams, Juliana Lubin, Walter Josten, Patrick Josten, Jarrett Mahoney, David Edelstein, Thomas Walton, Matt Macur, Abraham Gomez, Kyle Stroud, Diane Gooch, Mickey Gooch Jr., Ibrahim Mohammed, Tory Robson, Wes Prichard and Phillip D. Hamilton.
WME Independent is shopping North American rights to the project while Mk2 is handling international.
Check out the clip above.