{"id":40993,"date":"2026-10-08T10:26:25","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T08:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/film\/minotaur\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T14:05:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T12:05:21","slug":"minotaur","status":"publish","type":"film","link":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/film\/minotaur\/","title":{"rendered":"Minotaur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Russia, 2022. Gleb runs a successful business and lives with his wife Galina and their son in a provincial town. When war breaks out in Ukraine, he is ordered to select employees for mobilisation to the front. As the pressure on his business and those around him mounts, Gleb discovers that his wife is having an affair. His carefully constructed life begins to slowly implode and threatens to descend into violence.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Almost ten years after <em>Loveless<\/em>, Andrey Zvyagintsev (<em>Leviathan<\/em>, <em>The Return<\/em>) returns with a chilling political thriller, loosely inspired by Claude Chabrol\u2019s <em>La Femme infid\u00e8le<\/em>. An intimate marital crisis escalates into a much broader reflection on a society in which war, power and violence are encroaching ever more deeply on everyday life. The title refers to the mythical monster lurking in the labyrinth \u2013 and to what emerges when a person is driven further and further into a corner.<\/p>\n<p><em>Minotaur <\/em>won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival and is France\u2019s official entry for the Oscar for Best International Feature Film. An absolute must-see this year!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Don&#8217;t miss <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/film\/the-return\/\">The Return<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/film\/the-banishment\/\">The Banishment<\/a>. In December, we\u2019ll also be screening <em>Loveless<\/em> and <em>Leviathan<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":40913,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40993","film","type-film","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/film\/40993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/film"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/film"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/film\/40993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41046,"href":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/film\/40993\/revisions\/41046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buda.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}