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Forest

2003 · 90 min

A slow, unsettling mosaic of Budapest lives that feels like eavesdropping on quiet despair and strange, sinister encounters.

Directed by
Benedek Fliegauf
Genres
Drama
Overview
Every day life for young men and women in Budapest is on display. All "teenage savages" at the time when communism disappeared in Eastern Europe, they now view the world in a sinister way. Examples: A woman becomes irritated with a man who has left his dog. A father has an argument with his wife about an alarming (to the parents) arousal of sexuality in their 10 y.o. daughter. A young girl is distressed by her growing realization that she is more and more like her sadistic grandmother. A conversation between two guys, apparently about an old car, takes an unexpected turn.

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Directed by
Benedek Fliegauf
Genres
Drama
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Tone
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • eeriestrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 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
  • family
  • identity
  • madness
  • sexuality
Places
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • ensemble
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror3
Humour2
Realism8
Romance1
Tension6
Darkness8
Complexity7
Emotional weight7

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Genres
drama
Directed by
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Written by
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Starring
Rita Braun, Barbara Csonka, Laszlo Cziffer, Gábor Dióssi, Bálint Kenyeres, Edit Lipcsei, Péter Mátyássy, Katalin Mészáros
Cinematography
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Runtime
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Country
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Languages
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