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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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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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Sunset | Rotten Tomatoes (1) 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 Full Review Sunset | Rotten Tomatoes (2) 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 Full Review Sunset | Rotten Tomatoes (3) 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 Full Review Sunset | Rotten Tomatoes (4) 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 Full Review Sunset | Rotten Tomatoes (5) 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 Full Review Sunset | Rotten Tomatoes (6) 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 Full Review Read all reviews

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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 4.5/5 Stars • Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/08/24 Full Review Audience Member I loved this. Depth of a quality short story. Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/10/23 Full Review Audience Member 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 2.5/5 Stars • Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member 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 2.5/5 Stars • Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/05/23 Full Review Audience Member 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 0.5/5 Stars • Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/17/23 Full Review 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 4.5/5 Stars • Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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László Nemes Director Juli Jakab Írisz Leiter Vlad Ivanov Oszkár Brill Evelin Dobos Actor Susanne Wuest The Princess Urs Rechn Ismael
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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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