Sunset

[rich]

Finally got around to seeing Lazlo Nemes' film Sunset. Budapest 1913, a
young woman ostensibly in town returning to the city of her birth to get a
job at the fab hat store which were owned by her parents at one time, goes
searching for a brother she did not know she had. It's an odd film but
wonderfully shot, a teaming city you and the heroine are plopped down into
the streets and parties and sinister gatherings, there's even a balloon.
Her brother may be mad, a murderer, an anarchist, or just a nihilist.
Nothing is made all that clear beyond the mysteriousness of all she meets
from a variety of social classes. There's a tinge of unease about the whole
enterprise, though we're given only glimpses of what lay beneath all the
pretty things and smiles. Its worth a look. My only regret is not seeing it
on the big screen.

you can read more about below from Mr Hoberman. He does mention Nemes and
the support of the Oban government for both Sunset and Son of Saul though I
dont detect any effect on the films in an artistic sense.

https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/03/22/the-ominous-decadence-of-laszlo-nemess-sunset/

rich