On Body and Soul

There is a real tinge of sadness to On Body and Soul, which serves as a quaint allegory on dating in the age of Tinder: a hint that visiting mysterious strangers in our dreams is at times as close we get to intimacy.

On Body and Soul is the power of dreams manifested, mixed with crushing reality of languid love, an emotion with as many mixed signals as the fantasies they're meant to evoke.

It's a love story and one of the most startling, original, and poised films of the year.

One of the most curious yet appealing romances you're likely to see

The plot mechanism that links these ideas and images is, we'll just say, grossly misjudged.

On Body and Soul's fusion of romance, comedy, ultraviolence, and political commentary has the logic of a lucid dream.

A holy text of cinema. And if you have never crossed paths with it, this is your moment at the crossroads. Ildikó Enyedi's macrocosmic masterpiece.

Ildiko Enyedi's Hungarian love story - between a CFO of a slaughterhouse and his new health inspector - is the definitive portrait of introversion, loneliness, outcasts and kindred souls.

The most accomplished part of this movie is its atmosphere, its visual elements, including the staging of the interaction between the two main characters. [Full Review in Spanish]

On Body and Soul is deeply grounded, focused, and whole. It is, as far as I'm concerned, a masterpiece of weird love stories.