Hungarian director Ildikó Enyedi has already won at the Cannes Film Festival once already: the Golden Camera award for her 1989 feature film debut “My 20th Century.” Now, Enyedi vies for the Palme d’Or as her latest film, “The Story Of My Wife,” has its world premiere in competition at Cannes this week.
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“The Story Of My Wife” is Enyedi’s first film since 2017’s “On Body And Soul.” That film won the coveted Golden Bear, the top prize at the Berlin International Film Festival, and later nabbed a Best Foreign Language Film nomination at that year’s Oscars. “The Story Of My Wife” is an adaptation of the 1942 novel of the same name by Milán Füst, a favorite from the director’s teenage years.
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Here’s the official synopsis from Cannes:
Jacob Störr, a sea captain, makes a bet in a café with a friend to marry the first woman who enters the place. And in walks Lizzy.
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The film stars Léa Seydoux, Gijs Naber, Louis Garrel, Sergio Rubini, and Jasmine Trinca. Luna Wedler, Joseph Hader, Ulrich Mattes, and Udo Samel round out the main cast.
Cannes favorite Seydox stars in three other films premiering at the festival this year: Bruno Dumont‘s “France,” Wes Anderson‘s “The French Dispatch,” both also in competition for the Palme ‘Dor, and Arnaud Despelchin‘s “Deception.” Louis Garrel‘s latest directorial effort, “The Crusades,” which he also stars in, also has a special screening at this year’s festival.
Will Enyedi capture Cannes’ top prize with “The Story Of My Wife” like she did at Berlin with “On Body And Soul” in 2017? Tune into The Playlist’s Cannes coverage to find out. Check out clips from the film below.
