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After years of abusive gymnastics training in Hungary, gifted gymnast Miklos Dongo (Zoltan Miklos Hajdu) makes his way to Canada where he trains young students in his craft. However, Miklos is forced to train an impetuous young wunderkind, Kyle (Kyle Shewfelt), as punishment for striking one of his students. His growing bond with his young pupil is interspersed with flashbacks from his life, culminating in a competition in which student and teacher compete against one another.
  • Genre:
    drama
  • Original Language:
    Hungarian
  • Director:
    Szabolcs Hajdu
  • Writer:
    Szabolcs Hajdu
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Zoltan Miklos Hajdu
Gheorghe Dinica
Kyle Shewfelt
Szabolcs Hajdu
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  • Far from the uplifting sports pictures churned out by Disney, White Palms wallows instead in humiliation rituals, psychic scars and too much time-shifting.

    June 23, 2007 | Rating: 3/6 | Full Review…

    Melissa Anderson

    Time Out

  • The term 'sports film' doesn't do justice to White Palms, a punishing, beautiful drama about a troubled 30-something Hungarian gymnast.

    June 20, 2007 | Rating: 4/5

    Matt Zoller Seitz

    New York Times

  • The more riveting, grim storyline ... is seen in flashback to the early 1980s, as tween Miklos lives like his parents' show pony in an anxiety nightmare of nonstop humiliation, heightened here through haunting soundscapes.

    June 20, 2007 | Full Review…

    Aaron Hillis

    Village Voice

  • An uncommonly resonant sports drama in which a talented yet troubled gymnast comes to terms with a turbulent past, White Palms proves a distinctive and absorbing third feature by Szabolcs Hajdu.

    June 19, 2007 | Full Review…

    Eddie Cockrell

    Variety

  • Striking, deeply felt drama.

    November 9, 2006

    Sheri Linden

    Hollywood Reporter

  • Delivers all the familiar pleasures of a based-on-a-true-story sports drama.

    September 23, 2006 | Rating: 3/4
    Globe and Mail
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