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Pacing is terrible. The first 40 minutes is just characters staring in the distance. Then for a while there is some action finally people start to have dialogs, backgrounds but everything goes as you would expect to go (especially if you're familiar with the Hungarian political situation), the movie doesn't really add to the conversation. And then the movie ends without resolution, solution or a true climax. Dialog goes from bad to ok (realistic), acting is ok-ish. All the characters are one or zero dimensional even though many have their lives shown both in the professional and the private aspect.

The movie is definitely not an explanation of everything, it's more of an example of the (stereo)typical.

Here are instructions to watch this movie as a profound experience:

Watch it without researching anything about the background of this movie. (Don't even focus on the awards and nominations.) You'll probably find it slow, melancholic maybe even boring. That's ok, keep watching.

Now pay attention to the credits and read the trivia section here and then the page of this movie on Wikipedia. Now read interviews with the supporting actors (e.g. Bob Wells).

Now realize what you have just seen...

It's a fairly good movie, but about 90% of it is a bit-by-bit copy of the original: same dialogs, same scenes, same twists, up until the very end where this move takes a little bit a different turn than the original (although I'm not sure if this is unique for the Hungarian version, there a quite a few remakes of Perfetti sconosciuti - 2016, so even that deviation may been invented by someone else.) Long story short, the original is better, that one offers you much less resolution and leaves you with much more unease than this version, which is overall lighter in every sense. If you saw the original you can definitely skip this one> but if you saw this one, the original might still offer just a bit more (there are worse ways to spend 96 minutes of your life...)