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…

A rather bizarre romance that takes place between employees of a slaughterhouse who learn that they are sharing the same dream, on a nightly basis. One is an older man with a crippled arm, the other a younger woman who is on the spectrum or dealing with a social disorder - the film doesn't spell it out. Its one of the things I liked about this film - it doesn't feel the need to explain everything (never given any idea why the man's arm is crippled, for instance) nor do the characters explain their reasons to each other, which I could see infuriating some viewers. There's difficulties in their relationship that would so easily be resolved with some explaining of…

Die Welt ist ein Schlachthaus.
Jede Berührung kann verletzen, töten.
Und trotzdem gibt es sie. Die Hoffnung auf eine romantische Liebe. Aber sie ist womöglich nur wenigen Mutigen vergönnt, die sich trauen ihre Herzen zu öffnen. Ob es das Risiko wert ist?

"Körper und Seele" (2017) ist ein magischer und ruhiger Film. Ein Film der über die Liebe handelt, aber vielmehr auch selber eine Liebeserklärung an die romantische Liebe ist.
Hollywood hat die einfach Liebe mit "La-La Land" und "50 Shades of Grey" pervertiert und getötet. Echte, lebendige, leidende* Liebe findet sich wohl nur noch im europäischen Film.

Dieser Film hat wohl verdient die Berlinale gewonnen. Über die leichte Zähigkeit und das naive Ende sehe ich mal hinweg.
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