"It has reverberated so much in my own existence," the Hungarian auteur shares ahead of the Venice premiere about how his family's history inspired the film. "It is almost like a Hamlet story." By ...
Immaculate and inert, “Orphan” plays like a Spruce Goose power ballad too leaden to lift. Premiering at the Venice Film Festival, László Nemes’ period epic glows with honey and moves like molasses, ...
The 'Son of Saul' director's portrait of a 12-year-old boy confronted with ugly family secrets in 1950s Soviet-occupied Hungary is handsomely mounted but narratively inert. In its place is a burnished ...