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06/24/06
Hukkle (2002)
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Reviews Counted: 31 Fresh: 31 Rotten:0 Average Rating: 7.7/10
Consensus:
Understated, unconventional and observant.
Rated: 12A
Runtime: 75 mins
Theatrical Release: 26-11-2004
Synopsis: The bucolic, even-paced, daily life of a small Hungarian village is the setting for the experimental film HUKKLE (onomatopoeic for "hiccup" in Hungarian). A series of dialogue-less vignettes, featuring the various townspeople and their animals, explore the quotidian existence in the... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Ferenc Bandi, Józsefné Rácz, Ferencné Virág, József Forkas, Ferenc Nagy
Director: György Pálfi
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11/23/04
Top Critic
Some of the things encountered in Hukkle are brilliant cinematic conceits, which the director properly builds up to their punchline.
12/06/06
Sparkling and thought-provoking, Hukkle is the cinematic equivalent of a puzzle box wrapped up in ethnic enigmas and rural riddles.
07/27/05
It's a novelty, and an educational one at that. It reminds you of just how dumb your average movie is these days.
04/29/05
The movie is an enriching, lovingly filmed exercise in disorientation, worth seeing more than once if you've got the time, money and patience.
04/28/05
So precisely and hypnotically assembled it could have been directed by a particularly whimsical metronome.
06/18/04
Gyorgy Palfi shows an incredibly deft hand in creating a fictional story that...you could enjoy as a slice of life in rural Hungary
06/03/04
There are so many odd references tucked into "Hukkle" it becomes a complex puzzle masquerading as a simple tale which may require multiple viewings.
06/01/04
What film is all about, but all too often isn't -- it challenges its audience to look at the world in a different way.
03/26/04
Packs more bizarre ideas into its 75 minutes than most films do with two hours.
03/26/04
At once impressive and indulgent, hypnotic and patience-inducing with its languorous rhythms.
12/18/03
Top Critic
The picture is so completely detailed and precise in its depiction of pastoral beauty that, if you blink, you might well minimize--or miss--the murder that gradually darkens the story.
12/06/03
Hypnotic, elliptical, often rapturously beautiful, the film is a testament to the much-maligned concept of art cinema, one that depends for its thrills on film's essentials as a visual and sonic medium.
12/05/03
You're in for an unforgettable experience, a microcosmic cornucopia of delights.
12/05/03
It's bracingly funny to see the glorious human species redefined as just another set of moving parts in a huge machine lacking any evident purpose.
12/05/03
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