2002 · mystery · experimental

Hukkle

Directed by György Pálfi · 1h 18m · 2002

Using almost no dialogue, the film follows a number of residents (both human and animal) of a small rural community in Hungary – an old man with hiccups, a shepherdess and her sheep, an old woman who may or may not be up to no good, some folk-singers at a wedding, etc. While most of the film is a series of vignettes, there is a sinister and often barely perceptible subplot involving murder.

Our read: Hukkle (2002) reads as a neutral, slow-burn, surreal mystery · experimental entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.