The relentless calamity becomes a grind, offering few insights beyond ones that are obvious in the first half hour.
Overview
In a village on the Hungarian border, two young brothers grow up during war time with their cruel grandmother and must learn every trick of evil to survive in the absurd world of adults.
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In adapting the novel, Szasz and screenwriters Tom Abrams and Andras Szeker tread carefully, leaving a lot to the imagination ...
A bleak, despairing testament to the cruelty of war, and how it mangles and defaces everyone it touches.
If only I could figure out what all this was meant to stand for.
Thoroughly unpleasant and at the same time completely unedifying.
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