Saturday, February 10, 2018

On Body and Soul (2017)

Director: Ildikó Enyedi. Cast: Géza Morcsányi, Alexandra Borbély, Zoltán Schneider. 116 min. Hungary. Drama/Romance.

Probably the weirdest romance movie you'll ever see. Two very different people, an ex-womanizing loner and an autistic genius, meet at work, and wake up to their attraction for each other through the very coincidental realization that they're seeing the same dreams. This is a movie where one of the characters is committing suicide, and as the suicide is in progress, it suddenly becomes ... funny. Yeah, that weird. And the miracle is, it never misses a beat, and offers thought-provoking statements on the meaning of soul-mates, the consequences of marriage, and the feasibility of that thing called love.

PS: Nominated this year for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, available on Netflix.

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