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‘Evolution’: Kornel Mundruczó’s Drama Is A Misguided Tale Of A Gifted Refuge With Powers [Cannes Review]
One should perhaps not read too much into the fact that the press screening of Kornel Mundruczó‘s “Evolution” was timed to coincide with the final of the UEFA European Football Championship. But if playing it to an inevitably thinned-out crowd is hardly a mark of confidence, the lack of faith is sadly well-placed: Mundruczó’s return to the Cannes Competition lineup is just as messy as his 2017 entry, “Jupiter’s Moon,” confused and glib and at times in even more dubious taste than that story of a refugee gifted with inexplicable, messianic superpowers.
