Synopsis
Two introverted people find out by pure chance that they share the same dream every night. They are puzzled, incredulous, a bit frightened. As they hesitantly accept this strange coincidence, they try to recreate in broad daylight what happens in their dream.
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Cast
- Alexandra BorbélyMária
- Morcsányi GézaEndre
- Réka TenkiKlára
- Ervin NagySándor
- Zoltán SchneiderJenő
- Tamás JordánMária's Childhood Doctor
- Itala BékésZsóka
- Éva BataKöves Jutka
- Pál MácsaiDetective
- Zsuzsa JáróZsuzsa
Recommendations
- 100
Los Angeles Times
Like the best of dreams, familiar yet wondrously different, On Body and Soul adroitly mixes recognizable cinematic tropes with extraordinary ideas that are very much the filmmaker's own. - 90
Screen Daily
The film’s most considerable achievement, however, is to sustain its drama on a finely poised level of emotional intimacy, while sometimes hitting us with intense imagistic charges, not least the graphic slaughterhouse scenes at the start. - 75
The Film Stage
On Body and Soul seduces, distracts, intrigues, but ultimately doesn’t pack the visceral, spiritual impact that one might expect. - 75
IndieWire
By placing vastly different people into a situation in which they find common ground, it highlights the tantalizing idea that the minutiae of day-to-day problems matters less than the prospects of escaping them through companionship. - 75
Slant Magazine
On Body and Soul's fusion of romance, comedy, ultraviolence, and political commentary has the logic of a lucid dream. - 75
Movie Nation
On Body and Soul isn’t as linear in its storytelling style or as results-oriented in its plot as a Hollywood or Western European film wrestling with these themes might be. That’s why the foreign language Oscar category is so valuable. It insists that viewers at least take a shot at seeing the world through another culture’s eyes via challenging films. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
Building her narrative around a pair of deadpan performances that yield dashes of humor amid a deep sentiment of human longing, Enyedi can sometimes revel too much in her depictions of modern solitude...without taking the theme much further. But she manages to introduce a few welcome surprises. - 70
Variety
It’s to the credit of Borbély’s intelligent, melancholically understated performance that Maria remains sympathetic even as she becomes more of a condition than a character — and to the richness of the writer-director’s ideas that they move and intrigue even when they’re most artificially expounded.
