Hukkle

I just saw last night the remarkable film Hukkle (pronounced something like "huuk-leh," and referring to the sound of hiccups). Set in the Hungarian village of Ozora with actual villagers, the film is something truly original. Totally without dialog, it is a real tour de force of cinematography, sound editing and film editing. The story, such that it is, is paced very slowly, some kind of weird Hungarian village version of Blue Velvet almost -- in that something is rotten under the surface of this innocent-seeming place. Fantastically imaginative filming by, I'm please to say, a friend of mine, Gergely Pohárnok, who used to be a photographer for Budapest Week (the newspaper I co-founded and edited) before he became one of Hungary's leading lights in the cinema industry. Written and directed by György Pálfi.

It plays tonight and tomorrow only at Cinema Village. Check it out if you can. Here are the official web site and the IMDB entry.

UPDATE:
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention earlier, watching this made it clear to me why Hungarians are the third fattest nation on earth.