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Dead Landscape

1972 · 1h 35m · Drama

IMDb 6.7

Skip it unless you're in the mood for a bleak, slow-burn meditation on rural isolation and existential despair—this Hungarian arthouse drama is deliberately punishing, with a protagonist whose life crumbles incrementally toward a devastating ending. If you want beauty and meaning from your evening, look elsewhere; if you crave unflinching, devastating character study that doesn't offer easy answers or comfort, dive in.

Plot

This Hungarian film chronicles the slow deterioration in the life of Juli, a farmer's wife. As the countryside grows ever more deserted because people are moving to towns or large collective farms, she spends more and more time alone. Despite her best efforts to appreciate her situation, her despair grows. The loneliness is briefly interrupted when she and her husband take in an old woman and care for her, but the woman dies. Shortly after her son visits, she is killed in an accident which may have been a suicide. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

Director: István Gaál

Cast: Mari Törőcsik, István Ferenczi, Irma Patkós, József Papp, István Szilágyi

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