On Body and Soul

Name: On Body and Soul
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: February 2, 2018
Duration: 116 min
Rating: 77
Cast: Alexandra Borbély, Ervin Nagy, Éva Bata, Géza Morcsányi, Itala Békés

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Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): February 2, 2018 | Not Rated

Starring: Alexandra Borbély, Ervin Nagy, Éva Bata, Géza Morcsányi, Itala Békés, Júlia Nyakó, Réka Tenki, Tamás Jordán, Zoltán Schneider, Zsuzsa Járó

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,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, deducting penalty points for every excessive ounce of fat. Hers is a world that consists of figures and data that have imprinted themselves on her memory since early childhood. Her slightly older boss Endre is also the quiet type. Tentatively, they begin to get to know each other. Recognising their spiritual kinship, they are amazed to discover that they even have the same dreams at night. Carefully, they attempt to make them come true. [Berlin]
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Director: Ildikó Enyedi

Genre(s): Drama, Romance

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 116 min

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Kenneth Turan

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. Read full review

Jonathan Romney

Feb 18, 2017

The film’s most considerable achievement, however, is to sustain its drama on a finely poised level of emotional intimacy, while sometimes hitting us with intense imagistic charges, not least the graphic slaughterhouse scenes at the start. Read full review

The Film Stage Zhuo-Ning Su

Feb 18, 2017

On Body and Soul seduces, distracts, intrigues, but ultimately doesn’t pack the visceral, spiritual impact that one might expect. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

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. Read full review

Guy Lodge

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. Read full review

Jordan Mintzer

Feb 18, 2017

Building her narrative around a pair of deadpan performances that yield dashes of humor amid a deep sentiment of human longing, Enyedi can sometimes revel too much in her depictions of modern solitude...without taking the theme much further. But she manages to introduce a few welcome surprises. Read full review

Patrick Gamble

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. Read full review

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Xerxes77

Sep 10, 2020

یکی از بهترین فیلم ها،کارگردانی عالی فضای فیلم خوب از فیلم هایی که تا مدت ها تو ذهنم میمونه

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JLuis_001

Feb 27, 2018

The slowness of the narrative might despair some people but I'm quite pleased with the story, perhaps love can be for everybody and I also liked the way in which the film tells it, because is intelligent and without a single shred of corny stuff.

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DogeGamer2015

Jun 27, 2021

Es una película de romance y drama; la trama es buena, las actuaciones son decentes y la cinematografía es bellísima; tiene alguna escenas grotescas, pero vale la pena tu tiempo para verla.

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