22/28

Most of the actors who play him are friends, students or teachers of writer-director Gábor Reisz

Tale

Abel is a high school student struggling to concentrate on his final exams, while he is hopelessly in love with his best friend Janka. Due to the subject matter of the film, the Hungarian government did not provide funding for the film, so it had a small budget and a small crew.

After leaving the cinema I felt robbed - not only in terms of money but also in terms of time

This film is pure garbage, it doesn't know what it wants to be and to be honest, it makes no sense - I say this as a Hungarian. There were, admittedly, a few scenes where I thought, wow, okay, nothing is happening after all, but the director decided to leave the threads as they are, without following them up at all.

I think it is a perfect example of what not to make a film about

This poorly done script could have been set up in less than an hour, but this slow and tragically bad acting most of the time leads to painfully long dialogues and scenes. It had potential, they could have made some comparison with the change of socialist regimes in the past, but the terrible director let that common thread disappear into thin air.

1/10 (I would give it 0 to be honest)

I would not recommend watching this garbage to anyone who likes movies.