HUKKLE
Thursday & Friday, April 15 & 16 -- 7pm & 9pm
A visual
feast from Hungary.
A visually elegant, aurally rich, narratively confounding murder mystery, "Hukkle"
(which means "hiccup" in Hungarian) takes place in a rural village
somewhere in Palfi's native country, where farmers and seamstresses and their
children go about their days in soft-spoken, often silent drudgery… Hypnotic,
elliptical, often rapturously beautiful, the film is a testament to the much-maligned
concept of art cinema, one that depends for its thrills on film's essentials
as a visual and sonic medium. (Excerpt by Ann Hornaday) Hungary, 2002, color,
some Hungarian w Eng subt., 75 mins., unrated.