Sauvage

No pun intended - you can ask that for many movies I reckon. And it is a valid question here too. You have a one location movie, but at least you have an outside and inside scenario going on. So there is a lot of variation going on ... and quite a few colorful characters. Your moral compass may lead you to have some issues with certain things ... just suspend your disbelief and go with the flow.

This is a slow burner and you can somewhat claim or put the Western label on it. But maybe not in the way some of you think. Again, you have to let the movie move at its own pace ... let things build up ... before all goes ... well there is some mayhem towards the end. Predictable to a degree ... but also fun to watch. Well fun, because we know it is a movie. Not so much fun for those involved ... and decisions have to be made ... status quo or risking once own life to do or go a different path? Not easy to answer ... and a "not answer" sometimes is also an answer. Some graphic violence and some sexual situations ... in case that means anything for or to you.

I loved the movie for the actors, the mood and the storyline. Unpredictable in every way you can imagine. All the characters seem lost and lonely and happiness is found at places you don't expect. (I would love to explain more but that would mean to spoil the movie.)

If you love indie chic, you will love it. It's a sort of stationary road movie that surprises with its twists and turns. Sometimes a bit slow but this helps to set the mood that made this movie special, too.

I loved the actors - and actresses. The men are mostly gross but women are beautiful to look at - and fall in love with.

Oh, great writing and directing, too.

Like some other reviewer mentionned it: it is a Panonian Western: slow, with well designed typical characters that contain just that extra depth, inner sadness and fatality. The right amount of killings.

All more or less accidental but they changed the life of everybody for ever. All rough but contemplative/ melancholic but not a tear jurker (at all). Interesting plot. The atmosphere is loaded all the time, with missed destinies, regrets, harsh lives. It doesn't take parts. Life goes as it goes. And in spite of everything people hang on it.

Very good acting. The final is quite satisfying. This is a real movie, not just entertainment.

This film is particular in itself because it has a not too imaginative plot but thanks to the characters and the development of this trivial plot the film becomes really nice. Let's start from the biggest flaw though, the acting isn't that great and the actors don't show much of the emotions well, but this huge flaw is compensated by the general atmosphere and the only noteworthy character with a very nice personal story and with a narrative arc that surpasses all the others in depth, in my opinion it can be said that he is actually the real protagonist and in conclusion I must therefore say that without this particular character the film would almost all be thrown away.

Didn't know it was in Hungarian.

Didn't unfold the way I expected it to which kept me interested.

Oddball characters played really well by the handsome cast.

Starts off very quiet and slow but eventually gets nasty and brutal.

Balancing the brutality is, of all things, a sweet romance.

If you need a break from blockbusters and happily-ever-afters this could be for you.

For anyone that cares this was shot on "old school" 35mm film and it looks better for it.

Recognised the actress who plays Marsci but I can't recall the names of other stuff she's done.

Commendable example of the one location thriller genre.