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Miskolc International Film Festival · 2016

Miskolc International Film Festival 2016

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9 films · 4 reviews

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All These Sleepless Nights

What does it mean to be truly awake in a world that seems satisfied to be asleep? Kris and Michal push their experiences of life and love to a breaking point as they restlessly roam the streets of Warsaw in search for answers.

(Country: UK, Poland; Year: 2015; Director: Michal Marczak)

The Boy On The Train

An American film director screening his new film in Budapest meets one of the subjects of that film. What begins as a simple chat over coffee turns into an eerie road trip.

(Country: US, Hungary; Year: 2016; Director: Roger Deutsch; Writer: Roger Deutsch, Randy Cashmere; Stars: James Eckhouse, Barnabás Tóth, Tibor Szervét, Anna Herczenik, Kata Wéber, Zoltán Durkó, Márta Holler, Ádám Breier, Gergely Fogarasi, Simon Zsolt Dániel, Sára Boncser, László Valiszka)

Close Encounters With Vilmos Zsigmond

Documentary about the cinematographer.

(Country: France; Year: 2016; Director: Pierre Filmon; Writer: Pierre Filmon; Stars: Nancy Allen, John Boorman, James Chressanthis, Bruno Delbonnel, Caleb Deschanel, Richard Donner, Peter Fonda, Pierre-William Glenn, Stephen Goldblatt, Fred Goodich, Isabelle Huppert, Darius Khondji, Michael Murphy, Yuri Neyman, Ivan Passer)

Elle

Review preview for Elle

Huppert's outstanding performance embraces with unswerving delicacy the controversial decisions she faces.

Anne-Katrin Titze · 4 out of 5
A successful video game boss aims to track down her attacker after a home invasion.

(Country: France, Germany, Belgium; Year: 2016; Director: Paul Verhoeven; Writer: David Birke, based on the book by Philippe Djian; Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Alice Isaaz, Christian Berkel, Virginie Efira, Anne Consigny, Laurent Lafitte, Jonas Bloquet, Charles Berling, Vimala Pons, Raphaël Lenglet, Olivia Gotanègre, Lucas Prisor, Judith Magre, Arthur Mazet, Stéphane Bak)

Elvis & Nixon

Review preview for Elvis & Nixon

Dangerously thin on purpose

Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
Elvis goes to the White House to ask the President to make him a Federal Agent At Large.

(Country: US; Year: 2016; Director: Liza Johnson; Writer: Joey Sagal, Hanala Sagal, Cary Elwes; Stars: Michael Shannon, Kevin Spacey, Alex Pettyfer, Johnny Knoxville, Colin Hanks, Evan Peters, Sky Ferreira, Tracy Letts, Tate Donovan, Ashley Benson)

Love & Friendship (Lady Susan, Love And Friendship)

Review preview for Love & Friendship

Whitman respects and relishes in Austen's creation but is no slave to it, inventing additional characters to help the story flow.

Amber Wilkinson · 5 out of 5
A widowed woman tries to manipulate her daughter into marriage.

(Country: US, Ireland; Year: 2016; Director: Whit Stillman; Writer: Whit Stillman, from the novella by Jane Austen; Stars: Kate Beckinsale, Chloë Sevigny, Xavier Samuel, Stephen Fry, Emma Greenwell, James Fleet, Jemma Redgrave, Jenn Murray, Lochlann O'Mearáin, Morfydd Clark, Tom Bennett, Justin Edwards, Kelly Campbell, Conor MacNeill, Ross Mac Mahon)

Memo

A psychiatrist studying hypernesia forms an unusual relationship with a patient in a bid to help his amnesiac father.

(Country: Hungary; Year: 2016; Director: István Tasnádi; Writer: István Tasnádi; Stars: Tamás Lengyel, Áron Molnár, Péter Haumann, Orsolya Holecsko, Zoltán Seress, Eszter Csákányi, Attila Tóth, Judit Osváth, Sára Gábor, Bence Bíró, Kriszta Szorcsik, Janka Kertész, Gergo Bánki, Roland Tzafetás, Timur Khrotko)

Snap

A high school reunion threatens to throw a young woman's impending marriage off track.

(Country: Thailand; Year: 2015; Director: Kongdej Jaturanrasamee; Writer: Kongdej Jaturanrasamee; Stars: Toni Rakkaen, Waruntorn Paonil, Krisana Panpeng)

THX 1138

Review preview for THX 1138

Michael Radford's film version of Orwell's masterpiece offers a faithful interpretation, but it is THX 1138 that captures the very essence of its stark warning against totalitarianism.

Niall McCallum · 4 out of 5
In a dystopian future, a couple rebel against society's no-emotion rules.

(Country: US; Year: 1971; Director: George Lucas; Writer: George Lucas, Walter Murch, Matthew Robbins; Stars: Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence, Don Pedro Colley, Maggie McOmie, Ian Wolfe, Marshall Efron, Sid Haig, John Pearce, Irene Cagen, Gary Alan Marsh, John Seaton, Eugene I. Stillman, Jack Walsh, Mark Lawhead, Robert Feero)