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  • 2018
  • Not Rated
  • MUBI
  • 1 h 56 m
  • 2018
  • Not Rated
  • MUBI
  • 1 h 56 m
On Body and Soul

Summary A slaughterhouse in Budapest is the setting of a strangely beautiful love story. No sooner does Mária start work as the new quality controller than the whispers begin. At lunch the young woman always chooses a table on her own in the sterile canteen where she sits in silence. She takes her job seriously and adheres strictly to the rules,...

Directed By: Ildikó Enyedi

Written By: Ildikó Enyedi

  • 2018
  • Not Rated
  • MUBI
  • 1 h 56 m
  • 2018
  • Not Rated
  • MUBI
  • 1 h 56 m

On Body and Soul

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
77
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 56 User Ratings
7.9
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Summary A slaughterhouse in Budapest is the setting of a strangely beautiful love story. No sooner does Mária start work as the new quality controller than the whispers begin. At lunch the young woman always chooses a table on her own in the sterile canteen where she sits in silence. She takes her job seriously and adheres strictly to the rules,...

Directed By: Ildikó Enyedi

Written By: Ildikó Enyedi

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
77
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10% Mixed
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0% Negative
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100
Feb 1, 2018
Like the best of dreams, familiar yet wondrously different, On Body and Soul adroitly mixes recognizable cinematic tropes with extraordinary ideas that are very much the filmmaker's own.
By Kenneth Turan FULL REVIEW
75
Feb 13, 2018
On Body and Soul isn’t as linear in its storytelling style or as results-oriented in its plot as a Hollywood or Western European film wrestling with these themes might be. That’s why the foreign language Oscar category is so valuable. It insists that viewers at least take a shot at seeing the world through another culture’s eyes via challenging films.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 56 User Ratings
7.9
80% Positive
45 Ratings
18% Mixed
10 Ratings
2% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 56 User Ratings
7.9
80% Positive
45 Ratings
18% Mixed
10 Ratings
2% Negative
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75
Jan 29, 2018
On Body and Soul's fusion of romance, comedy, ultraviolence, and political commentary has the logic of a lucid dream.
By Chuck Bowen FULL REVIEW
75
Feb 18, 2017
On Body and Soul seduces, distracts, intrigues, but ultimately doesn’t pack the visceral, spiritual impact that one might expect.
By Zhuo-Ning Su FULL REVIEW
70
Feb 18, 2017
It’s to the credit of Borbély’s intelligent, melancholically understated performance that Maria remains sympathetic even as she becomes more of a condition than a character — and to the richness of the writer-director’s ideas that they move and intrigue even when they’re most artificially expounded.
By Guy Lodge FULL REVIEW
67
Feb 1, 2018
While these are major hurdles to the film holding together as a consistent exploration of its subjects, On Body and Soul is still an intriguing, cerebral comeback for Enyedi.
By Clint Worthington FULL REVIEW
60
Feb 18, 2017
There's a measured, almost clinical precision to how On Body and Soul is shot that, while in keeping with Mária's great fragility and terrible need for affection, prevents the film from really delivering.
By Patrick Gamble FULL REVIEW
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Production Company Inforg-M&M Film Kft., Hungarian National Film Fund
Release Date Feb 2, 2018
Duration 1 h 56 m
Rating Not Rated
Genres
Tagline We meet at night. In our dreams.
Website http://www.port.hu/a_testrol_es_lelekrol/pls/fi/films.film_page?i_topic_id=2&i_film_id=174216&i_city_id=-1&i_county_id=-1
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Awards

Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Nomination
Hungarian Film Week
• 5 Wins & 7 Nominations
Berlin International Film Festival
• 4 Wins & 4 Nominations

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