Audiences are likely to be satisfied with the way the movie positions a love story in fresh light.Īvailable to stream starting February 2nd. Carried by convincing turns by its two leads and a mesmerizing tone thick with mystery, ‘On Body and Soul’ builds to an emotional climax that makes it one of the most original love stories in recent memory. That potentially laughable concept takes on an elevated poetic quality as both characters learn to come out of their shells through the strange phenomenon that brings them together. It follows slaughterhouse manager Endre (Géza Morcsányi) and his shy new employee Mária (Alexandra Borbély) as they gradually discover that they share the same dreams, exploring a snowy landscape in animal form. This year’s Gold Bear winner has the whimsical plot of a Michel Gondry movie, but its perspective on the alienation of the workplace and the universality of desire is completely original.
Here’s what IndieWire’s Eric Kohn had to say about the film last year: distribution, expect to see more top-tier foreign fare like this pop up on the service. As Netflix increasingly becomes a safety net for subtitled fare that can’t score U.S. It even has a pretty decent shot to win the whole shebang. But this striking and highly unusual love story tends to leave an impression with anyone who watches it, and once Hungary offered the movie as their country’s official Oscar submission, we weren’t surprised to see that it made the shortlist, or that it ultimately scored an actual nomination. After winning the prestigious top prize at the Berlin International Film Festival in February, the movie then disappeared without a trace, barely making a peep on the North American festival circuit. Hungarian director Ildikó Enyedi’s muted, lightly fantastical romance has been on quite the journey for the past year. Throw in Vincent D’Onofrio as a giant space cockroach and top it off with that mini-speech about how everybody knew the Earth was flat, and not only do you have one of the most purely entertaining event movies of the ’90s, you also have one of the only plausible explanations for what’s happened since.Īvailable to stream starting February 1st.
The chemistry between the curmudgeonly Tommy Lee Jones and the hyper-charismatic Will Smith is legitimately out of this world, the two of them bouncing jokes off each other like they’ve been working their act on the road for 25 years.
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Back in 1997, it felt like empty calories - just another disposable summer blockbuster to enjoy with the family on Big Willie Weekend - but Barry Sonnenfeld’s best film (yep) is an immaculately constructed piece of popcorn entertainment, a sublime artifact from a time when major studios were still growing franchises from scratch, creating new fans on the strength of raw star power and rock-solid storytelling.īuilt atop a wonderfully efficient screenplay (almost every line stands out), “ Men in Black” drops viewers into a fleshed-out film universe that feels like “Ghostbusters” on steroids - bigger, funnier, and full out of animatronics so good that you start to feel like special effects actually peaked 20 years ago. It’s genuinely amazing how well this movie has held up. Available to stream starting February 23rd.
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