Sunset
[DVD]

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PRODUCT DESCRIPTION In 1913 a woman scours the streets of Budapest, Hungary, to find the brother she never knew she had. Directed by László Nemes, who won the Best Foreign Language Oscar with his previous film Son of Saul. REVIEW Unlike most costume dramas, Sunset, a moving Hungarian character study set in Budapest during 1913 isn't a movie you can easily get lost in. The movie's disorienting and visually austere style takes some getting used to: dark, but warmly lit hand-held cameras draw viewers' attention beyond the immediate foreground (almost always in focus) towards the camera frame's out-of-focus background. That kind of showy, subjective camerawork is a little daunting (Can't I decide where I want to look for myself?). But I have to admit: by consistently denying viewers an objective God's eye of events, writer/director Lászlò Nemes (Son of Saul) also immediately establishes his movie's character-driven, low-key tense atmosphere. This is the world according to Irisz Leiter (Juli Jakab), an emotionally withdrawn young woman who struggles to understand and re-join a (high) society that she was never really part of. Irisz's point-of-view is sometimes a little stifling, and more than a little disorienting but it's also rather powerful. - Simon Abrams --https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/sunset-2019 László Nemes is a filmmaker who keeps his friends close and his cameras closer. The Hungarian director s devastating 2015 debut, Son of Saul, distinguished itself not just by sticking right next to its main character but virtually breathing down his neck the fact that our guide was a Sonderkommando at Auschwitz, grimly trying to survive a waking nightmare, only heightened the effect [...] The stakes are nowhere near as high in Nemes follow-up, Sunset how could they be, really? But there is life, glimpsed in the periphery as folks walk down a crowded street in Budapest in the 1910s, the Austro-Hungarian empire still in effect and World War I still waiting patiently on the horizon. And there is death, both the legacy of it and threat of it as an era of European history is about to come to a close. Most of all, there s the same emphasis on putting viewers claustrophobically near the facial pores of a protagonist, a young woman called Írisz (Juli Jakab) - David Fear --https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-reviews/sunset-movie-review-808060/

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