SummaryA slaughterhouse in Budapest is the setting of a strangely beautiful love story. No sooner does Mária start work as the new quality controller than the whispers begin. At lunch the young woman always chooses a table on her own in the sterile canteen where she sits in silence. She takes her job seriously and adheres strictly to the rules, deductin... Read More
Directed By:Ildikó Enyedi
Written By:Ildikó Enyedi
On Body and Soul
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77
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
77
90% Positive
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
10% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Feb 1, 2018
100
Like the best of dreams, familiar yet wondrously different, On Body and Soul adroitly mixes recognizable cinematic tropes with extraordinary ideas that are very much the filmmaker's own.
Feb 13, 2018
75
On Body and Soul isn’t as linear in its storytelling style or as results-oriented in its plot as a Hollywood or Western European film wrestling with these themes might be. That’s why the foreign language Oscar category is so valuable. It insists that viewers at least take a shot at seeing the world through another culture’s eyes via challenging films.
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Generally Favorable
7.9
80% Positive
53 Ratings
53 Ratings
18% Mixed
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2% Negative
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Feb 16, 2025
10
It is looks like a first embodiment of the soul here on the Earth. The soul (in Maria body) have the first experience, studies the human low-frequency world vibration, studies specific human sensations and emotions. Soul in body meets the laptop, meets the tactile human touch, afraid of sunlight, and another "strange things". The soul watches this human world and study it. Meanwhile, the embodied soul have a super unhuman memory, the soul can ignore the human pain, and limited with familiar human emotions. This is my alternative point of view for this movie... As I have seen the main idea in the picture.
Sep 10, 2020
9
یکی از بهترین فیلم ها،کارگردانی عالی فضای فیلم خوب از فیلم هایی که تا مدت ها تو ذهنم میمونه
Jan 29, 2018
75
On Body and Soul's fusion of romance, comedy, ultraviolence, and political commentary has the logic of a lucid dream.
Feb 18, 2017
75
On Body and Soul seduces, distracts, intrigues, but ultimately doesn’t pack the visceral, spiritual impact that one might expect.
Feb 18, 2017
70
It’s to the credit of Borbély’s intelligent, melancholically understated performance that Maria remains sympathetic even as she becomes more of a condition than a character — and to the richness of the writer-director’s ideas that they move and intrigue even when they’re most artificially expounded.
Feb 1, 2018
67
While these are major hurdles to the film holding together as a consistent exploration of its subjects, On Body and Soul is still an intriguing, cerebral comeback for Enyedi.
Feb 18, 2017
60
There's a measured, almost clinical precision to how On Body and Soul is shot that, while in keeping with Mária's great fragility and terrible need for affection, prevents the film from really delivering.
Jun 27, 2021
7
Es una película de romance y drama; la trama es buena, las actuaciones son decentes y la cinematografía es bellísima; tiene alguna escenas grotescas, pero vale la pena tu tiempo para verla.
Feb 27, 2018
7
The slowness of the narrative might despair some people but I'm quite pleased with the story, perhaps love can be for everybody and I also liked the way in which the film tells it, because is intelligent and without a single shred of corny stuff.
Production Company:
- Inforg-M&M Film Kft.
- Hungarian National Film Fund
Release Date:Feb 2, 2018
Duration:1 h 56 m
Tagline:We meet at night. In our dreams.
Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Nomination
Hungarian Film Week
• 5 Wins & 7 Nominations
Berlin International Film Festival
• 4 Wins & 4 Nominations
