Fresh
It's intelligent, well-acted and beautifully photographed.
Richard Nilsen, Arizona Republic
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Gloomy Sunday
Overview
Budapest in the 1930s. Restaurant owner Laszlo hires pianist András to play in his restaurant. Both men fall in love with the beautiful waitress Ilona who inspires András to his only composition. His song of Gloomy Sunday is, at first, loved and then feared, for its melancholic melody sets off a chain of suicides. The fragile balance of the erotic ménage à trois is sent off kilter when the German Hans falls in love with Ilona as well.
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84%
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Fresh
Its old-fashioned romanticism is heady, and the relationships among the characters are intriguing.
Jay Boyar, Orlando Sentinel
Fresh
It has enough opulent, oversized romanticism to make it a guilty pleasure, not to mention three attractive and appealing characters and, of course, that song.
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press
Fresh
It's a stirring and provocative affirmation of the power and resilience of love.
Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News
Fresh
Gloomy Sunday has a mood and a magic about it that elicit emotion from the beginning and make an audience follow it down its curving and melancholy path.
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
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