Sunset

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Sunset
Napszállta
László Nemes
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
Hungary, France | 2018 | 144m | Hungarian, German

In the Austro-Hungarian Empire, shortly before the First World War, the enigmatic Írisz Leiter (Juli Jakab) causes a stir when she enters an elegant Budapest department store specializing in women's hats. The sense of disquiet that fill the store soon pervades the entire film as we learn the reason for Írisz's visit: the shop once belonged to her parents, and her return reveals a past full of troubling family secrets. Using exquisite 35mm and 65mm film, Hungarian director László Nemes recreates the twilight of an era in all its sensual detail, with an attention to high fashion and the art of millinery that rivals 2017's Phantom Thread. The intensity of Sunset is unmistakable, confirming Nemes' extraordinary talent in this follow-up to his critically acclaimed 2015 feature debut, Son of Saul.

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