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Sunset

2018 · 137 min

An immersive, disorienting plunge into a fading world, where the camera clings to one woman and the past presses in like a fever.

Directed by: László Nemes
Genres: Drama, History
Starring: Juli Jakab, Vlad Ivanov, Evelin Dobos

Overview: In 1913, an orphaned young woman arrives in Budapest to take up employment as a milliner at the hat store that belonged to her late parents but becomes mired in a search for a brother she had never known of.

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Directed by: László Nemes
Genres: Drama, History
Starring: Juli Jakab, Vlad Ivanov, Evelin Dobos

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Tone: darkstrength 3 of 3
tensestrength 3 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
eeriestrength 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: identity
isolation
family
memory
obsession
Places: big city
workplace
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
unreliable narrator
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence strong
Sex mild

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Horror	3
Humour	1
Realism	8
Romance	1
Tension	7
Darkness	8
Complexity	8
Emotional weight	8

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Genres: drama, history
Directed by: László Nemes
Written by: László Nemes, Clara Royer, Matthieu Taponier
Starring: Juli Jakab, Vlad Ivanov, Evelin Dobos, Susanne Wuest, Judit Pecháček, Levente Molnár, Christian Harting, Julia Jakubowska
Music: László Melis
Cinematography: Mátyás Erdély
Runtime: 137 min
Country: France, Hungary
Languages: German, Hungarian

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