Review by borzadani

Karanténzóna is a 2022 Hungarian sketch-film, containing 5 short stories, all set during the lockdown of the corona pandemic - and each comes with a surreal, absurd twist, in the style of Twilight Zone.

The stories are fairly diverse.

We have:

• a long-term married couple struggling to remain sane with each other,
• a single mother homeschooling her daughter and taking care of her ill father,
• a lonely old lady whose belongings keep disappearing,
• a young infuencer and her ambitious boyfriend starting their new life together
• and a man choosing total isolation in the solitude of his apartment.

While not every story is equally captivating, they all very well encapsulate the absurdity, the banality and the horror of the situation a lot of people were forced to in in the past few years. Also when take into consideration that the movie is a work of a few independent artists, without any big names or millions of dollars in the budget, it's all the more fascinating. The technicalities are all stellar, it all looks and sounds splendid.

If you have a HBO Max, look no further and watch it! Great achievement!