A battle-scarred, has-been Hungarian cop, tormented by his memories of nearly killing an innocent woman in his custody, enters into a Faustian pact in which he trades his soul for a handful of "magic" bullets that always hit the mark. A mysterious and mythical story.
Direction
Enyedi's hypnotic, symbol-drenched visual language.
Cinematography
Bleached-out Budapest as spiritual wasteland.
Acting
Gary Kemp's crumbling machismo is uncomfortably perfect.
Director
Ildikó Enyedi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Gary Kemp was so method he trained with Hungarian police marksmen for months; his shaking hands in the opening scene are partly real exhaustion.
This was Enyedi's comeback after the collapse of Hungarian state funding—she allegedly sold her apartment to finish post-production.
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