Told almost entirely without words and composed largely of detail shots, this doesn't quite transcend the gimmickry of its concept, but it succeeds as a bravura technical exercise with some truly amazing images.

| Apr 4, 2019

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 1, 2006

Unclassifiable and wildly original.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 13, 2004

So precisely and hypnotically assembled it could have been directed by a particularly whimsical metronome.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 18, 2004

What film is all about, but all too often isn't -- it challenges its audience to look at the world in a different way.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 26, 2004

At once impressive and indulgent, hypnotic and patience-inducing with its languorous rhythms.

Full Review | Dec 18, 2003

Hypnotic, elliptical, often rapturously beautiful, the film is a testament to the much-maligned concept of art cinema, one that depends for its thrills on film's essentials as a visual and sonic medium.

| Dec 5, 2003

You're in for an unforgettable experience, a microcosmic cornucopia of delights.

Full Review | Dec 5, 2003

Offers an alternately familiar and mystifying meditation on the age-old narrative technique of montage.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 28, 2003

A fiendishly clever movie from promising young Hungarian director Gyorgy Palfi.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 28, 2003

Deranging a venerable Hungarian tradition of 'village sociology,' Palfi employs a bizarrely associative montage to fashion a portrait of a traditional peasant community -- just a midsummer Sunday on Mars.

Full Review | Nov 25, 2003

It requires patience and attention. It is not soothing, like a nature study, but disturbing, seeing life as an arena for deadly struggles in which most creatures earn a living by eating each other.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 14, 2003

It's a delightfully screwy ethnographic murder mystery, beautifully photographed in translucent naturalistic color.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 13, 2003

If you're attracted to pure, exquisitely photographed cinematic depictions of the world, you could almost lie down in Hukkle as if it were a meadow and soak in its sun-drenched atmosphere.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 24, 2003

A movie that has no language barrier and even functions as a satisfying whodunit.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 24, 2003