Laszlo Nemes

[rich]

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/sep/03/sunset-review-laszlo-nemes

brief synopsis from Variety review below who's writer compares to our man
in certain ways

Nemes also directed Son of Saul which I highly recommend. a Holocaust film
like no other

rich

starts with a mystery: Irisz returns to Budapest, having moved abroad as a
child following her parents’ death, and upon applying for a job at the
store her parents once owned, she discovers that she has a brother and that
he’s in hiding. On her quest to find him she will uncover further secrets
about her family’s past, sneak into high-society parties, track down an
underground anarchist group, get embroiled in political assassinations, and
infiltrate a shady prostitution ring catering to members of the Habsburg
family. Every person Irisz meets is a potential ally or foe, or both; there
are characters who may or may not be figments of her imagination; all offer
her clues but the further along she gets, the hazier and more unattainable
her objective becomes.

Nemes thus paints a portrait of Budapest — and by extension Europe — as a
powder keg of clashing economic, social and political forces, ready to
explode into World War I and bring down the Austro-Hungarian Empire. As
with Pynchon, history is represented as an entropic, conspirational
whirlwind that sweeps ups the individual, for whom the exercise of free
will is a pursuit at once vital and futile.