Lynn Belvedere

ON BODY AND SOUL (Hungarian: Testről és lélekről)

ON BODY AND SOUL (Hungarian: Testről és lélekről) TESTROL ES LELEKROL is a Hungarian drama film, with a highly original love story, created, written and directed by Ildikó Enyedi. Starring Géza Morcsányi, Alexandra Borbély, Zoltán Schneider.

In February 2017 won the Golden Bear in the main competition section of the 67th Berlin International Film Festival. At Berlin it also won the FIPRESCI Prize and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury. It was selected as the Hungarian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film and was nominated for the Oscar at the 90th Academy Awards. Alexandra Borbély won the European Actress award at the European Film Awards for her performance in the film.                                             

Ildikó Enyedi is a leading Hungarian screenwriter and director. Between 1987 and 1999, she directed seven feature films, including “My Twentieth Century” which won the “Camera d’Or” at the Cannes Festival, and “Simon the Magician”. It took eighteen years, before the director could get this feature film project produced.

Well deserving of winning 16 awards, and having another 11 nominations. A must see experience, will always be well remembered. Very highly recommended, but please do be well aware that ON BODY AND SOUL is the un-cut original 116 minute version, and has the Australian Classification rated R 18+ (Consumer Advice: strong sexual images, suicide scene, high impact Sex and Nudity, with brief depiction of actual sexual activity). Language – Hungarian, with 95% accurate English sub-titles.

A very compelling and quite strange bizarre tale of two abattoir workers, at a brutal Hungarian slaughterhouse, an unsettling unexpected romance develops only in their surreal identical dreams, happening in an alternate universe that is only experienced whilst they are asleep. A carefully crafted and dream-driven fictional tale, and their tender performances deliver a crisp portrait of loneliness of these two single people.

You are able to suspend dis-belief due to the blatant absurdity of their dreams, very cleverly combined with happenstance, that allows real love to develop between Maria (Alexandra Borbély) a young woman who has the high functioning mannerisms of Asperger’s Syndrome, and Géza Morcsányi (Endre) an older man.

Finally in Australian Cinemas, with a limited run from Thursday 10th May 2018 until 24th May 2018.

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Published by Lynn Belvedere

Once we were old enough, my parents took the whole family to the Sydney CBD cinemas every week. Thus began a lifetime interest, in going to the cinema every week, and became a passionate cinephile by watching all those very heavily edited ''Australian Film Censorship Board'' true cinéaste versions of brand new release ''Cinematograph Films''. Greater Union always gave my father (who worked in Cinema Distribution Exhibition) guest double movie passes, to every first-night ''red carpet Opening Night'' at The State Theatre Cinema at 49 Market Street. Up until his death, my dad always received ''two house seats'' for every Opening Night performance events at the Theatre Royal SYDNEY and at Her Majesty's Theatre SYDNEY. As a child, when mum choose not to go, I often went with him, to those live performance events. As a young child, I remember being taken for each new show, at both The New Theatre at 60 Sussex Street, and the Phillip Street Theatre when located at 150 Elizabeth Street, and for classical music concerts at Sydney Town Hall. = = = ★★★★★ = = = Being happy is a choice, and I have always viewed my life, as material ready be made into a series of amazing tentpole movies. My New Years Resolution is kept every year: ''Get to see/review five new live theatre shows each week, and get to see/review six new cinema movies each week'', plus is one of the Australian Cinema Pioneers, and apparently have seen far too much already, but always wanting to experience more and more each year. I am also able to do almost everything that I enjoy doing. Yes, I do have a great daytime job in I.T. as ''Software Design Project Manager'', PLUS each evening until quite late - - - Australian Cinematograph Films historical censorship consultant - product-placement consultant - mystery-shopper consultant - playwright, writer, author, director, producer, photographer, cinematographer, color-grader, subtitles proofreader - arts/ drama/ music/ film critic and judge, journalist, member FIPRESCI & FCCA & AFCA, member AACTA accredited film reviewer-critic-writer, accredited IMDB.COM critic-reviewer-author, projectionist, plus an innovative iconoclast - - - ★★★★★ LYNN BELVEDERE ★★★★★ - - - [usr 5] - - -