The Notebook

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Movie Info

Twin brothers, who were sent to live with their abusive grandmother during World War II, learn how to manipulate people.

Rating:

R (Disturbing Violent Content|Disturbing Sexual Content|Language|Nudity)
Genre:

drama, war
Original Language:

Hungarian
Director:

Janos Szasz
Producer:

Pal Sandor, Sándor Söth
Writer:

András Szekér
Release Date (Theaters):

Aug 29, 2014 limited
Release Date (Streaming):

Dec 1, 2014
Box Office (Gross USA):

$66.2K
Runtime:

1h 50m
Production Co:

Hunnia Films

Cast & Crew

László Gyémánt
Other

András Gyémánt
One

Piroska Molnár
Grandmother

Ulrich Thomsen
Officer

Ulrich Matthes
Father

Sabin Tambrea
Officer's friend

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Critics Consensus: The November Man is Slick But Convoluted

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Critic Reviews for The Notebook

All Critics (36) | Top Critics (19) | Fresh (24) | Rotten (12)

The relentless calamity becomes a grind, offering few insights beyond ones that are obvious in the first half hour.

October 2, 2014 | Full Review…

Ty Burr
Boston Globe
In adapting the novel, Szasz and screenwriters Tom Abrams and Andras Szeker tread carefully, leaving a lot to the imagination ...

September 26, 2014 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

Kate Taylor
Globe and Mail
A bleak, despairing testament to the cruelty of war, and how it mangles and defaces everyone it touches.

September 26, 2014 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

Tirdad Derakhshani
Philadelphia Inquirer
If only I could figure out what all this was meant to stand for.

September 25, 2014 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…

Michael O'Sullivan
Washington Post
Committed to calcified emotions, the film and characters often feel dramatically inert but Szsz keeps the film going with moments that are haunting and provocative.

September 25, 2014 | Rating: 3/5

Radheyan Simonpillai
NOW Toronto
Thoroughly unpleasant and at the same time completely unedifying.

September 18, 2014 | Full Review…

J. R. Jones
Chicago Reader
It's a strikingly photographed, pervasively bewitching account of adolescent twin boys and their development into (mostly) apathetic killing machines.

September 5, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…

Nicholas Bell
IONCINEMA.com
It certainly paints a grim picture, but if war is hell, so is this film.

August 7, 2019 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…

Matthew Lucas
From the Front Row
As little emotion as the two boys show as the film wears on, Szasz actually shows less, finding a way to show the dehumanizing experience of living in wartime without ever going beyond the pale.

November 22, 2018 | Full Review…

Stephen Saito
Moveable Fest
Notebook frames the evil revealed by the region's Nazi Occupation as the most treacherous of fairy tales: one that realizes our childhood fear that there really are no trustworthy grownups.

August 4, 2017 | Full Review…

Lisa Rosman
Signature
While the film has a tendency to sometimes stray into melodrama, Szsz has crafted a strong adaptation that keeps its literary heart but surrounds it with strong cinematic emotion.

April 21, 2017 | Full Review…

Laurence Boyce
Cineuropa
While some sequences are powerful and even shocking, the cumulative effect lacks emotional punch, due in part to the uneven performances and the familiarity of the material.

January 9, 2015 | Full Review…

Todd Jorgenson
Cinemalogue

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