Using almost no dialogue, the film follows a number of residents (both human and animal) of a small rural community in Hungary – an old man with hiccups, a shepherdess and her sheep, an old woman who may or may not be up to no good, some folk-singers at a wedding, etc. While most of the film is a series of vignettes, there is a sinister and often barely perceptible subplot involving murder.
Direction
Pálfi's microscopic attention to village life's hidden rhythms.
Sound
Natural sound design that becomes its own language.
Cinematography
Intimate close-ups of insects, animals, and human rituals.
Director
György Pálfi
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