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Sunset (Napszállta) struggles to fill its runtime with consistently compelling drama, but uses one woman's experiences to convincingly capture a society at a crossroads. Read critic reviews

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Movie Info

In 1913 a woman scours the streets of Budapest, Hungary, to find the brother she never knew she had.
  • Rating:
    R (Some Violence)
  • Genre:
    drama, history
  • Original Language:
    Hungarian
  • Director:
    László Nemes
  • Producer:
    Gabor Sipos, Gábor Rajna
  • Writer:
    László Nemes, Clara Royer, Matthieu Taponier
  • Release Date (Theaters):
     limited
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  • Box Office (Gross USA):
    $161.3K
  • Runtime:
  • Production Co:
    Laokoon Filmgroup, Playtime
  • Sound Mix:
    Dolby Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    Flat (1.85:1)

Cast & Crew

Juli Jakab
Írisz Leiter
Susanne Wuest
The Princess
Vlad Ivanov
Oszkár Brill
Urs Rechn
Ismael
Judit Bárdos
Szeréna
Levente Molnár
Gaspar
Mónika Balsai
Mrs. Müller
Björn Freiberg
Man in White
László Nemes
Director
László Nemes
Screenwriter
Clara Royer
Screenwriter
Matthieu Taponier
Screenwriter
Gabor Sipos
Producer
Gábor Rajna
Producer
Judit Stalter
Executive Producer
Mátyás Erdély
Cinematographer
Matthieu Taponier
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Critic Reviews for Sunset

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  • Stripped of life-and-death consequences, Sunset never convinces us that its protagonist can sustain such unrelenting scrutiny.

    December 2, 2020 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…

    Marjorie Baumgarten

    Austin Chronicle

  • Instead, this feels like an abstract ode to the frantic, listless, tightly wound thing a city becomes on the eve of its demise.

    March 25, 2020 | Full Review…

    Nina Li Coomes

    Chicago Reader

  • Sunset is one of the most innovative and invigorating films I've seen, and I can't imagine that anything else this year could have topped it.

    December 30, 2019 | Full Review…

    Ben Sachs

    Chicago Reader

  • It's all too vague to function effectively as either a commentary on the build-up to the Great War or as the story of a woman looking to find her place in a city predicated on rigid, gender-determined hierarchies.

    June 1, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

    Simran Hans

    Observer (UK)

  • Nothing is ever quite clear - often literally, because Nemes likes to keep the middle-distance out of focus. It was chillingly effective in Son of Saul. Here it's just deadening.

    May 31, 2019 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

    Kevin Maher

    Times (UK)

  • A thing to be admired and puzzled over, featuring fantastic feats of millinery. Magic and hats, anyone?

    May 31, 2019 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…

    Tara Brady

    Irish Times
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Audience Reviews for Sunset

  • Jul 20, 2019
    The movie is designed to be infuriatingly enigmatic (i.e.the main character clearly has an arc, but we're never directly told what changes about her) and while I understand criticisms of that choice I don't believe that it undermines the compelling narrative or direction.If anything, its a movie that demands further study rather than just superficial examination.
    Alec B Super Reviewer
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