On Body and Soul

2017
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116 mins
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Two co-workers discover that each night they have exactly the same dreams in this Hungarian drama. Winner of the Berlinale... More

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On Body and Soul | Ratings & Reviews

"Is there a harsher juxtaposition than bucolic images of nature followed by bodies being slaughtered? Hungarian writer/director Ildiko Enyedi's intensely contemplative drama​ On Body and Soul, which has won a slew of awards including top prize at last year’s Sydney Film Festival, begins with beautiful icy-blue shots of deer in snowy wilderness, then violently changes tempo – venturing inside an abattoir in Budapest, where cows look dolefully into the lens. We discover those images of deer enter the minds of the film’s lead characters while they sleep. Will the abattoir symbolise the death of dreams? Or the difference, perhaps, between fantasy and meat hook reality?"

Flicks, Luke BuckmasterFlicks

"A determinedly eccentric but intermittently startling misfit romance that marks a singular return to feature filmmaking for Hungarian writer-director Ildikó Enyedi after an 18-year gap."

VarietyVariety

"This offally appealing arthouse tale of elusive love in an abattoir is a prime-cut, for the strong-of-stomach."

Total FilmTotal Film

"It's a slow, quiet and beautifully composed story about human connection, or more specifically, the difficulty in finding it."

Time OutTime Out

"It's a haunting film, with the blood, the dreams and the deer, but never wilfully obscure. Just slightly off kilter. Like life."

The TimesThe Times

"It's a love story and one of the most startling, original, and poised films of the year."

Sydney Morning HeraldSydney Morning Herald

"Delicate psychological insight, a strong aesthetic signature and two affecting, restrained performances by Alexandra Borbély and Géza Morcsányi overcome any familiarity, as well as occasional hints of preciousness."

Screen DailyScreen Daily

"The plot mechanism that links these ideas and images is, we'll just say, grossly misjudged."

NPRNPR

"A rich and strange tale of thwarted sexuality that takes a tad too long to get to the point."

Hollywood ReporterHollywood Reporter

On Body and Soul | Details

Award winner
Winner of the Golden Berlin Bear for Best Film, the FIPRESCI Prize, the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury and the Reader Jury of the "Berliner Morgenpost", 2017 Berlin International Film Festival
Runtime
116
Genre
Drama
Country of origin
Hungary

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