First Trailer for Intriguing New Kafka Film ‘Mr. K’ Starring Crispin Glover
by Alex Billington
September 17, 2024
Source: YouTube
“The hotel is shrinking!” This film premiered at the 2024 Toronto Film Festival and will be touring festivals before it opens sometime in 2025. From director Tallulah, Mr. K is another new Kafka story to get lost in. “Crispin Glover brings his best to Tallulah’s delightfully Kafkaesque tale of a traveling magician who finds himself in a hotel full of unusual guests — with no way out.” After spending the night in a remote hotel, Mr. K is stuck in a claustrophobic nightmare when he discovers that he can’t leave the building. Glover stars with the ensemble cast featuring Sunnyi Melles, Fionnula Flanagan, Bjørn Sundquist, Dearbhla Molloy, Barbara Sarafian, Jan Gunnar Røise, Esmée van Kampen, & Sam Louwyck. TIFF teases more: “Though Glover’s Mr. K expresses admirable patience and fortitude in the face of many curveballs, he inevitably starts to come undone. Conversely, Schwab grows ever more exacting in her control of the film’s unabashedly peculiar tone. Evocative of the early hits of Jean-Pierre Jeunet & Marc Caro and the hotel nightmares of Stanley Kubrick & David Lynch, the ingenious visual design is another reason that Mr. K is well worth getting lost in.” Excellent poster (below), intriguing trailer, I’m definitely curious to watch this.
Here’s the first international trailer (+ promo poster) for Tallulah’s film Mr. K, found via YouTube:
Intro via TIFF: “The ordeal for Mr. K’s misfortunate protagonist — a travelling magician played by Crispin Glover in one of the richest performances in his long and continually surprising career — begins when he checks into a once-stately hotel. The following morning, Mr. K is understandably confused by his inability to find the exit. Then again, the magician doesn’t have much time to search for it due to the demands imposed on him by the hotel’s other inhabitants, a colourful gallery that includes a rather intimidating troupe of musicians, a bustling crew of kitchen workers, and a very classy elderly guest played by the great Fionnula Flanagan.” Mr. K is written and directed by Norwegian filmmaker Tallulah Hazekamp Schwab (aka just “Tallulah”), director of the movie Confetti Harvest previously, and the series “Pie”, along with a number of other short films. Produced by Erik Glijnis, Leontine Petit, Dries Phlypo, Judy Tossell, Jan van der Zanden, and Ineke Kanters. It just premiered at the 2024 Toronto Film Festival in the Platform section this month. The film is opening in the Netherlands in January 2025 – no other release dates are set. Anyone interested?
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