A journalist attempts to track down his scientist father in this trippy adaptation of the Stanislaw Lem science fiction classic, His Master's Voice. Péter (Csaba Polgár) is a thirty-something on the cusp of fatherhood, but an incredibly fraught relationship with his own Dad sends him on a journey around the world to try and track down the man who disappeared decades ago, leaving Péter and his brother Zsolt (Ádám Fekete) to wonder what became of him. What begins as a simple story of a man looking for his father, and by extension his own roots, quickly morphs into an incredibly complex conspiracy thriller in this bizarre adaptation of an already complex literary work. Director György Pálfi is well known in the arthouse world for having created some of the...
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- 10/9/2019
- Screen Anarchy
Attila Till’s movie isn’t exactly a radical representation of disability, but has its heart in the right place
If you see one film about a Hungarian hitman in a wheelchair this year, make sure it’s this one. Writer-director Attila Till’s plucky comedy-drama isn’t quite the radical representation of disability it seems to think it is, but has its heart in the right place.
Non-professionals Zoltán Fenyvesi and Ádám Fekete play young men with serious mobility issues (the actors themselves are physically disabled in the exact same ways as their characters) residing in an assisted-living home. They start writing a comic book about their adventures with an older friend, Rupaszov (Szabolcs Thuróczy), a greasy-haired badass paraplegic and contract killer for a Serbian mobster (Dusán Vitanovics) who runs with a pack of rottweilers.
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If you see one film about a Hungarian hitman in a wheelchair this year, make sure it’s this one. Writer-director Attila Till’s plucky comedy-drama isn’t quite the radical representation of disability it seems to think it is, but has its heart in the right place.
Non-professionals Zoltán Fenyvesi and Ádám Fekete play young men with serious mobility issues (the actors themselves are physically disabled in the exact same ways as their characters) residing in an assisted-living home. They start writing a comic book about their adventures with an older friend, Rupaszov (Szabolcs Thuróczy), a greasy-haired badass paraplegic and contract killer for a Serbian mobster (Dusán Vitanovics) who runs with a pack of rottweilers.
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- 9/15/2017
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
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