The Documentator

A long, essayistic drift through late-communist Budapest, mixing dry satire with documentary fragments that reward patience more than momentum.

Directed by

Györgyi Szalai, István Dárday

Genres

Drama

Starring

Mihály Dés, Lilla Pászti, János Ágoston

Overview

Via the New York Times: "...the film has the free form of the agitprop movies made by Jean-Luc Godard in the late 1960's and early 1970's. At the center of it is the small fictional tale of Raffael, who stands for everything rotten in the newly liberalized Hungarian society. He is the owner of an amazingly profitable video shop in Budapast and, it seems, a speculator in currencies."

How it feels

Satirical, cynical, melancholic and absurd. Slow-burning and demanding.

About

Greed, corruption, class, politics

Content

Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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