Reviews

The most unique film I've seen recently. Important questions, painful truths with humor instead of fake pathos. The whole theatre concept is genius, and makes fun of the white guilt hypocrisy and the misery porn that audiences love to see to feel they are 'good people'. I wish there were more hungarian films like this, which are not just for hungarians, and much more opportunities for roma actresses and actors to tell such stories honestly.

It's not everybody's cup of tea, I went with two off my classmates from film school, and one of them didn't know what to do with it. I often found it hilarious, also coming from theatre background and knowing this scene so many things are spot on.

This film came as a total surprise to me... I tought it is just an other biopic, which are pretty boring to me. The horror feeling, the overall vibe reminded me more of the Shining or Lynch instead. And for me, it worked, because her life in this family, with their oppressive coldness and weird traditions is as close to real life horror as only elite can get. The cinamatography, the music, the acting, the costumes - everything works perfectly together for this feeling, this creepy atmosphere which makes your skin crawl. I don't understand the negative reviews, why are people so close minded, nobody likes movies which are out of the box anymore?

This movie was very well-received in Hungary, but after the trailers I already knew that I won't pay for it. It just looked cheap without taste. The hype couldn't fool me. Tonight, when I saw it on HBO, I just... couldn't get it. How can people really like this film? It has such primitive angles and camerawork, like in a telenovella 10 years ago; a script is a hungarian fake historical soap opera; the costumes 'hungarosteampunk' or what - well, for the creativity I would give it a pass, if it didn't look soooo cheaaap, like made of plastik. The actors and actresses did what they could with the material, which of course couldn't be much.

Maybe the love for this film comes from sentimental patriotism, I can't believe anyone could seriously appreciate this fim, who isn't hungarian. The patriotism of the movie is so cheap and foced it is ridiculous - just like the austrians fake mustache, who are obviously the parody of themselves The only likeable charakter is the Horse, who is cool, because...horses are cool. You just can't mess up that one. Just everything else...