Film festival award-winning works are distributed one after another! 10 recommended NEON movies

9. "Palm Springs" (20) Director: Max Barbakow

Since the beginning of 2020, NEON has embarked on a joint venture with Hulu. This work is one of them. It was unveiled at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and won the distribution rights for the highest price (at the time) in the history of the Sundance Film Festival, surpassing " Little Miss Sunshine " (2006) and " Manchester by the Sea " (16). were bought and sold. This kind of adventure has become possible thanks to the collaboration with Hulu, which boasts abundant financial resources. This may be a clue to the coexistence of distribution companies and distribution companies.

This work is a sci-fi romantic comedy that is one of the popular movie genres, ``time leap movies,'' but also has a new essence. The story depicts the love story between a man who becomes a time reaper after visiting a mysterious cave where he can gain the ability to time-leap, and a woman who by chance discovers the ability to time-leap herself. In previous works, there were many patterns in which ``one partner has the ability to time-leap,'' but this time, the couple acquires the ability, creating a dialogue drama that starts at the right moment. Having experienced the same situation, what is happiness? It is an exhilarating romantic movie, with scenes where the two of them think about it, come together and talk about it.

In addition to this work, NEON works in 2020 include "Possessor" directed by Brandon Cronenberg (2013), " Antiviral " (2013), "Shirley" in which Elisabeth Moss plays a real-life ghost novelist, The lineup included ``Dear Comrades,'' which won the Special Jury Prize at the 77th Venice International Film Festival.

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Ten. "Gunda" (20) Director: Victor Kosakovsky