There was something deeply compelling about this rigorous and austere look at identity and trauma by Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó.
Continue readingEvolution (2021)
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Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time (2020)
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Full of slow twists and turns and existential ruminations on the intersections of physiology, memory and personality, Lili Horvát’s enigmatic drama gives us no easy answers.
Continue readingA Woman Captured (2017)
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You know that the story of a woman being kept essentially as a slave in contemporary Hungary is going to be hard-hitting. Filmmaker Bernadett Tuza-Ritter does an outstanding job of inserting us right into the exhausting day-to-day existence of Marish. Continue reading
Lily Lane (2016)
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Expectations again. This Hungarian film was described as a horror, well actually “somewhere between Terrence Malick, Andrei Tarkovsky and a horror film.” It wasn’t a horror. It was a dark tale to be sure but slow to get to its point. That would have been the Tarkovsky bit. Continue reading
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