"It has reverberated so much in my own existence," the Hungarian auteur shares ahead of the Venice premiere about how his family's history inspired the film. "It is almost like a Hamlet story." By ...
Venice: The Hungarian director channels Rossellini in dark, personal portrait of a nation — and a family. Instead, a burly butcher called Mihály (Grégory Gadebois) shows up at their door, claiming to ...
The 'Son of Saul' director's portrait of a 12-year-old boy confronted with ugly family secrets in 1950s Soviet-occupied Hungary is handsomely mounted but narratively inert. In its place is a burnished ...
Lest we forget that film festivals are a platform for the serious art of cinema, Hungarian auteur László Nemes makes it 3 for 3 with Orphan, another visually stunning but intellectually austere ...
In 2009, a new horror icon was born. As chilling as Scream’s Ghostface or Friday the 13th’s Jason Voorhees and even A Nightmare on Elm Street’s Freddy Krueger, this villain didn’t need a mask, machete ...
Oscar-winning “Son of Saul” and “Sunset” director László Nemes takes a personal story to the Venice competition. In “Orphan,” he’s recalling the story of his father who, as a 12-year-old boy, had to ...
Immaculate and inert, “Orphan” plays like a Spruce Goose power ballad too leaden to lift. Premiering at the Venice Film Festival, László Nemes’ period epic glows with honey and moves like molasses, ...
EXCLUSIVE: Deadline can reveal the first trailer for László Nemes’ post-World War II Hungarian family drama Orphan, which Hungary has selected as its Best International Film hopeful. Set in 1957 ...