Tag: Cinema of Hungary
Silent Friend | Review
Allegory of the Tree: Enyedi’s Masterful Meditation on Human Progress
The metaphorical subtexts germinating to fruition through Ildikó Enyedi’s Silent Friend are formidable, even as,...
Orphan | 2025 Venice Film Festival Review
I Will Be Your Father Figure: Nemes Paints Period Paternity Thriller
Hungarian director László Nemes essentially rounds out a thematic trilogy with his third film...
Divided Against Themselves: László Nemes Begins Production on Broken Family Drama “Orphan”
For his third feature (in a row), László Nemes is going back into the history books for his next project set to month into...
Interview: Gábor Reisz – Explanation for Everything
Winner of the top prize in the Orizzonti section at this year's Venice Film Festival, Gábor Reisz's expansive, multi-viewpoint slow-burn features a deep political...
Without Air | 2023 Toronto Intl. Film Festival Review
A Teacher Fights For Her Job In Katalin Moldovai’s Simmering Indictment of Hungary’s Culture Wars
Agnieszka Holland’s largely forgotten (and quite awful) 1995 biopic Total...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #176. Tibor Bánóczki & Sarolta Szabó’s White Plastic Sky
White Plastic Sky
With an earlier track record that includes Sundance short Les Conquerants in '12 and Clermont-Ferrand's Leftover '16, Hungarian filmmaker tandem Tibor Bánóczki...
Criterion Collection: Adoption (1975) | Blu-ray Review
Women face a complex and compounded pressure of perfection when it comes not just to initial reception of their artistic achievements, but also their...
Natural Light | 2021 Berlin International Film Festival Review
In the Fog: No Light at the End of the War Tunnel in Nagy’s Grim Debut
Following in the well-grooved footsteps of many notable Euro...
Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time | Review
Lover Come Back: Horvat Forges Queasy Love Connection with Projections and Perceptions
For her sophomore narrative feature, the intoxicatingly titled Preparations to Be Together for...
Spiral | 2020 Warsaw International Film Festival Review
Meandering with the Living and...the Dead: Felméri Offers Absorbing Sunken Lake Drama
In Spiral, the dead don’t come back, but rather, they attempt to haunt...
