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Dead Landscape

1972 · 95 min

A quiet, oppressive descent into solitude, watching a woman slowly fade as the world around her empties.

Directed by
István Gaál
Genres
Drama
Starring
Mari Törőcsik, István Ferenczi, Irma Patkós
Overview
This Hungarian film chronicles the slow deterioration in the life of Juli, a farmer's wife. As the countryside grows ever more deserted because people are moving to towns or large collective farms, she spends more and more time alone. Despite her best efforts to appreciate her situation, her despair grows. The loneliness is briefly interrupted when she and her husband take in an old woman and care for her, but the woman dies. Shortly after her son visits, she is killed in an accident which may have been a suicide. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

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Directed by
István Gaál
Genres
Drama
Starring
Mari Törőcsik, István Ferenczi, Irma Patkós
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Tone
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • isolation
  • loneliness
  • grief
  • aging
  • family
Places
  • countryside
  • small town
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror2
Humour1
Realism9
Romance2
Tension4
Darkness8
Complexity6
Emotional weight9

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
István Gaál
Written by
István Gaál
Starring
Mari Törőcsik, István Ferenczi, Irma Patkós, József Papp, István Szilágyi, András Ambrus, János Koltai, János Pákozdi
Music
András Szőllősy
Cinematography
János Zsombolyai
Runtime
95 min
Country
Hungary
Languages
Hungarian

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