2003 · comedy · drama · thriller
Kontroll (2003)
Directed by Nimród Antal1h 47m2003
A subway enforcement officer working in the oppressively gray Budapest metro gets a chance at love — but first he needs to find out why passengers are jumping — or being pushed — to their deaths onto the tracks.
Our read: Kontroll (2003) (2003) reads as a neutral, kinetic, inventive comedy · drama · thriller entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Neutral, kinetic, measured comedy / drama, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
- brisk
- intense
- inventive
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