Sunset

Original title: Napszállta

2018
R
2h 22m

IMDb RATING

6.2/10

4.7K

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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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Drama History

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

Videos7

Sunset: Family Business

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Sunset: Orphanage

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Sunset: Snooping Around

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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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Review

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5/10

It could have been so much more!

I watched this movie more or less by chance. I went to a non-mainstream theatre (this movie wasn't widely exhibited in Portugal), read the sinopsis and decided to give it a try.

On the one hand, this is one of those movies that really transport you into another time and place. Due to the brilliant sets and costumes, you really fell that you are in 1913's Budapest.

On the other hand, I found this movie dreadfully boring, I couldn't stop looking at the clock! I found the plot either irrelevant, boring or confusing.

The variety of camera shoots is also very poor. At some point, I got tired of looking at the back of the head and neck of the protagonist as she walks around.

To sum up, athough this movie had a great potential, the final product ended up beyond expectations.