Sunset

Name: Sunset
Genre: Drama
Released: March 22, 2019
Duration: 142 min
Rating: 65
Cast: Balázs Czukor, Björn Freiberg, Christian Harting, Evelin Dobos, János Kulka

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Sony Pictures Classics | Release Date: March 22, 2019 | Not Rated

Starring: Balázs Czukor, Björn Freiberg, Christian Harting, Evelin Dobos, János Kulka, Judit Bárdos, Juli Jakab, Julia Jakubowska, Levente Molnár, Marcin Czarnik, Mónika Balsai, Péter Fancsikai, Susanne Wuest, Urs Rechn, Uwe Lauer, Vlad Ivanov, Zoltán Cservák

Summary: 1913, Budapest, in the heart of Europe. The young Irisz Leiter arrives in the Hungarian capital with high hopes to work as a milliner at the legendary hat store that belonged to her late parents. She is nonetheless sent away by the new owner, Oszkár Brill. While preparations are under way at the Leiter hat store, to host guests of uttermost1913, Budapest, in the heart of Europe. The young Irisz Leiter arrives in the Hungarian capital with high hopes to work as a milliner at the legendary hat store that belonged to her late parents. She is nonetheless sent away by the new owner, Oszkár Brill. While preparations are under way at the Leiter hat store, to host guests of uttermost importance, a man abruptly comes to Irisz, looking for a certain Kálmán Leiter. Refusing to leave the city, the young woman follows Kálmán's tracks, her only link to a lost past. Her quest brings her through the dark streets of Budapest, where only the Leiter hat store shines, into the turmoil of a civilization on the eve of its downfall.… Expand

Director: László Nemes

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 142 min

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The Film Stage Rory O'Connor

Sep 5, 2018

It is difficult to find comparisons on a formal scale, and that the plot relies on a few reliable tropes does not distract from how clearly this is the work of a master. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Simon Abrams

Mar 22, 2019

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. Read full review

Mike D'Angelo

Mar 19, 2019

Sunset, Nemes’ second feature, not only confirms his talent but demonstrates that his style works beautifully even when transferred to perhaps the least horrifying milieu imaginable. Read full review

Deborah Young

Sep 3, 2018

Undeniably, Sunset is an impressive piece of filmmaking and from a technical point of view it stirs memories of the boldly shot Hungarian cinema revival of the Sixties. Read full review

The Observer (UK) Simran Hans

Jun 2, 2019

The film’s formal qualities obscure Nemes’s intentions instead of illuminating them. It’s all too vague to function effectively as either a commentary on the build-up to the Great War or as the story of a woman looking to find her place in a city predicated on rigid, gender-determined hierarchies. Read full review

Jay Weissberg

Sep 3, 2018

The chaos is there but without the coherence necessary to balance sensorial turmoil with genuine meaning. Read full review

Glenn Kenny

Mar 21, 2019

While Nemes’s near-subjective technique can generate genuine tension, it more often yields anxious tedium. Read full review

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DawdlingPoet

Apr 9, 2022

This is an intriguing watch, where we follow a young lady trying to piece together what happened to her brother, with a period backdrop of Budapest in the 1910s . I liked seeing the fancy hats the milliners worked on - there are some impressive costumes present. The film has a feel ofThis is an intriguing watch, where we follow a young lady trying to piece together what happened to her brother, with a period backdrop of Budapest in the 1910s . I liked seeing the fancy hats the milliners worked on - there are some impressive costumes present. The film has a feel of mystery and suspicion throughout. Its tense in places, though it features some quite jerky/shaky camerawork which may put some people off. It does keep you guessing though, regarding who can be trusted and I thought overall its a pretty good film. It is perhaps a little long at about two hours and twenty minutes long, so that and the camerawork may put some people off but if that doesn't bother you then I'd say this is worth a watch, yes.… Expand

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