Packs more bizarre ideas into its 75 minutes than most films do with two hours.
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03/26/04
Hukkle (2002)
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Reviews Counted:31
Fresh:31
Rotten:0
Average Rating:7.7/10
Consensus: Understated, unconventional and observant.
Synopsis: The bucolic, even-paced, daily life of a small Hungarian village is the setting for the experimental film HUKKLE (onomatopoeic for "hiccup" in Hungarian). A series of dialogue-less vignettes,... [More]
Starring: Ferenc Bandi, Józsefné Rácz, Ferencné Virág, József Forkas
Director: György Pálfi
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Reviews for Hukkle
A visual marvel that illustrates the beauty and terror of the natural world with unusual care.
07/08/03
It's bracingly funny to see the glorious human species redefined as just another set of moving parts in a huge machine lacking any evident purpose.
12/05/03
Top CriticHukkle plays like a relaxing visit to a foreign land.
06/24/03
Gyorgy Palfi shows an incredibly deft hand in creating a fictional story that...you could enjoy as a slice of life in rural Hungary
06/03/04
There are so many odd references tucked into "Hukkle" it becomes a complex puzzle masquerading as a simple tale which may require multiple viewings.
06/01/04
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.
11/14/03
Top CriticSparkling and thought-provoking, Hukkle is the cinematic equivalent of a puzzle box wrapped up in ethnic enigmas and rural riddles.
07/27/05
The picture is so completely detailed and precise in its depiction of pastoral beauty that, if you blink, you might well minimize--or miss--the murder that gradually darkens the story.
12/06/03
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.
11/25/03
Top CriticIf 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.
06/24/03
Top CriticHypnotic, 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.
12/05/03
Top CriticWhat film is all about, but all too often isn't -- it challenges its audience to look at the world in a different way.
03/26/04
Top CriticUnclassifiable and wildly original.
08/13/04
Top CriticCradling the natural setting, lingering on textures of cloth and bark and fingertip whorls, 'Hukkle' suggestively unravels its tale.
11/21/03
Palfi's engrossing feature debut is a breathtaking feat of filmmaking.
11/28/03
It's a novelty, and an educational one at that. It reminds you of just how dumb your average movie is these days.
04/29/05
So precisely and hypnotically assembled it could have been directed by a particularly whimsical metronome.
06/18/04
Top CriticA fiendishly clever movie from promising young Hungarian director Gyorgy Palfi.
11/28/03
Top CriticDaring and unusual.
01/22/04
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