Absolutely refreshing to see a love story that involved people who weren't perfect 10s! It is about time real people with real issues get some face time before the camera! Because in the real world nobody is perfect, we all carry baggage of some sort or another!

My heart ached for this couple! As deeply stifled and awkward as they were I found it was easy to relate to their story for if you think about it love is messy business! No one within its grip remains unscathed!

Nobody in their right mind wants to be single ready to mingle for it is one of the most maddening experiences one has to endure! I recall my first love and oh…

It is not very easy to meet people in real life, even though we might have 100's on social networking sites. There is still the awkwardness involved along with the first word to say and the letting someone in your life. The setting of On Body and Soul might be unusual to form a sensitive love story but who says you can't find love in a slaughterhouse?

Endre and Mária work together in a slaughterhouse and have the same dream every night. They meet as deer in the forest. Endre is the CFO and Mária is the precise quality inspector. Endre has given to his routine of daily life while Mária stays to herself. After they find out about their…

Mária is a shy young woman who remains isolated from her immediate environment possibly because of her peculiar personality and aversion to physical contact. She begins to work in a cattle slaughterhouse, a cold place where life ends in a rather cruel way, and that's where she meets Endre; he is a lonely man, older than her, with one of his arms totally paralyzed and an air of nostalgia after having given up the sentimental stage of his life. Mária and Endre will find that they share a unique connection that will lead them to gradually come closer and explore their desires.
Testről és lélekről is a film about the inevitable fate between two introverted people who did not seem…

Reviewed on Cinema Eclectica.
Also part of 52 films by women 2017: 49/52.

There's every chance that this won't strike anyone as deeply as it struck me, but the depth of feeling that Ildikó Enyedi's dream romance left me with is comparable to what normal people who like movies that make sense get out of The Shawshank Redemption. Alexandra Borbély's lead performance as Maria, an unhappy, repressed autistic woman who might have found a connection in the least romantic place on Earth is absolutely shattering, but the real star is Enyedi. Much more narratively controlled than her debut My Twentieth Century, but no less strange and innovative, she demonstrates a level of formal precision that puts her alongside a Glazer…

For a movie set largely in a slaughterhouse, it's somewhat surprising that the two most striking features of this movie are how gutless and anaemic it is.

Without going into too much detail, the plot of On Body And Soul is essentially one of magical realism, in which two individuals, Endre and Mária, share a dream-scape which encourages them to try to emulate the simple romance of their fantasy in real life. Of course, in the real world, things are not so easy as they are for imagined animals.

There's also a completely pointless and meandering subplot about a theft at the slaughterhouse which goes nowhere and barely mingles with the main plot.

On Body and Soul contains a lot…

It may be a slightly clichéd phrase of a middle-aged man and a young girl, but this is no obstacle in the method used to portray him. I have to admit that I haven't been as emotionally inspired for a long time as is the case with this movie. After watching, I moved into the bedroom and, shutting down the lights, closed my eyes and thought. Are there any soul mates? A question that has been swirling around in my head, though I have also lost a little sense of such constancy, which was not the case with, for example, a school period when the world seemed to be much more mature and open in the possibilities it offered. Of…