Sunset

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Sunset

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Released Mar 22, 2019

2h 20m

History

Drama

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In 1913 a woman scours the streets of Budapest, Hungary, to find the brother she never knew she had.

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Critics Consensus

Sunset (Napszállta) struggles to fill its runtime with consistently compelling drama, but uses one woman's experiences to convincingly capture a society at a crossroads.

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Marjorie Baumgarten

Austin Chronicle

Stripped of life-and-death consequences, Sunset never convinces us that its protagonist can sustain such unrelenting scrutiny.

Rated: 2.5/5

Dec 2, 2020

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Nina Li Coomes

Chicago Reader

Instead, this feels like an abstract ode to the frantic, listless, tightly wound thing a city becomes on the eve of its demise.

Mar 25, 2020

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Ben Sachs

Chicago Reader

Sunset is one of the most innovative and invigorating films I've seen, and I can't imagine that anything else this year could have topped it.

Dec 30, 2019

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Taylor Baker

Drink in the Movies

Episode 50: Heart of Glass / Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives / Sunset

Rated: 82/100

Oct 18, 2021

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Anne Brodie

What She Said

It's claustrophobic and puzzling, it's challenging, intellectually and emotionally and Nemes' rebellion feels dangerously authentic. Pay attention.

Dec 2, 2020

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Jon Espino

The Young Folks

Nemes and Royer create an over-encumbered plot that shifts the focus in so many directions that it leaves the viewer essentially cross-eyed.

Rated: 5/10

Dec 2, 2020

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Alec B

The movie is designed to be infuriatingly enigmatic (i.e.the main character clearly has an arc, but we're never directly told what changes about her) and while I understand criticisms of that choice I don't believe that it undermines the compelling narrative or direction. If anything, its a movie that demands further study rather than just superficial examination.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

01/08/24

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Audience Member

I loved this. Depth of a quality short story.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/10/23

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I didnt enjoy it as much as I thought I would her chasing her brother around and following her running was annoying , I saw many close ups of her face looking pinched and running, not listening to her other cast members and just taking off all over the place , it seemed strange that she chases a brother she didnt know she had and then not listen to him give her advice, a big bore for me

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/21/23

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In his second picture Hungarian star director László Nemes has become a hostage of his own directorial method, adapted from the great first movie 'Son of Saul'. Where first-person close-ups were helping greatly to tell the story situated in a closed space of a nazi camp in previous movie, this time it is sometimes just makes the activities of the main hero unexplainable. The film is longer than the predecessor too, which makes you feel vertigo closer to the end, giving this specific shooting technique. Though beautifully staged, it also lacks a script clarity, which doesn't help at all. Sadly, the second attempt of Nemes is way less successful than the first.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/05/23

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Basically thought she was looking for her brother. Seemed to just wander around alot, leaving us too wander with her. The back of her head was mostly seem.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

01/17/23

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Audience Member

The movie is designed to be infuriatingly enigmatic (i.e.the main character clearly has an arc, but we're never directly told what changes about her) and while I understand criticisms of that choice I don't believe that it undermines the compelling narrative or direction.If anything, its a movie that demands further study rather than just superficial examination.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

02/13/23

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Synopsis

In 1913 a woman scours the streets of Budapest, Hungary, to find the brother she never knew she had.

Director: László Nemes
Producer: Gabor Sipos, Gábor Rajna
Screenwriter: László Nemes, Clara Royer, Matthieu Taponier
Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics
Production Co: Laokoon Filmgroup, Playtime
Rating: R (Some Violence)
Genre: History, Drama
Original Language: Hungarian
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 22, 2019, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jun 25, 2019
Box Office (Gross USA): $161.3K
Runtime: 2h 20m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)

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