Sunset

Original title: Napszállta

2018
R
2h 22m

IMDb RATING

6.2/10

4.7K

YOUR RATING

1913, Budapest, in the heart of Europe as World War I approaches. The young Irisz Leiter arrives in the Hungarian capital with high hopes to work as a milliner at Leiter, the legendary hat store that once belonged to her late parents; but she is quickly sent away by the new owner, Oszkár Brill. While preparations are under way at the store, to host important, wealthy, royal guests, a man abruptly comes to Irisz, looking for a Kálmán Leiter, who he says is her brother. Refusing to leave the city, the young woman follows Kálmán's tracks, her only link to a lost past. Her quest brings her through the dark streets of Budapest, where only the Leiter hat store shines, into the turmoil of a civilization on the eve of its downfall.

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A young girl grows up to become a strong and fearless woman in Budapest before World War I.A young girl grows up to become a strong and fearless woman in Budapest before World War I.A young girl grows up to become a strong and fearless woman in Budapest before World War I.

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IMDb RATING

6.2/10

4.7K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 6 wins & 14 nominations total

Trivia
Hungary's submission for the Foreign Language Film Award of the 91st Oscars.

Goofs
Few lines are heard of T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, published in 1922, 12 years after the action.

Connections
Referenced in Not Okay (2022)

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Featured review

5/10

It could be better

I guess I was expecting more dynamics, but unfortunately didn't see it. Too much protractedly and like it turns around and turns, and turns. Nothing compared to the previous one. Yes, the style is the same, fast moving camera in one frame, ok, but it should be more than that considering giving us the good story. This is just running through some smoke, darkness, shiness and perhaps the picture of preparing for the war.