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Review: On Body and Soul |
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2017, 3/2, 85–89
Charles Martig
Film review
On Body and Soul (Ildikó Enyedi)
HU 2017
On Body and Soul (Ildikó Enyedi, HU 2017) is an astonishing film that offers a
precise and sensitive look at everyday life. the plot presents an unusual love
story between Mária, a young woman who has just begun to work as a qual-
ity controller, and Endres, the chief financial officer of the factory where she
has been appointed. that business is a slaughterhouse, a peculiar place that is
presented as a good working environment, where people speak to and respect
each other. the close-up on the transformation of living being into dead meat
builds the main setting of On Body and Soul and offers a scenario where cor-
porality is very much present.
For different reasons, the two protagonists do not have easy access to life
and are confronted with limits that challenge them every day. Communication
between the main characters is almost impossible. accidentally they discover
that they regularly meet in dreams. the images of those dreams present nature
as a place without limitation and of an incredible beauty and intensity, which is
in juxtaposition to the concreteness of death within a slaughterhouse. The con-
trast between freedom and constraint is staged not only within the narration
but also with a style based on close-ups on small things in everyday life.
after receiving the Golden Bear and the Prize of the ecumenical Jury at the
Berlin international film festival, hungarian director ildikó enyedi presented
her new masterpiece On Body and Soul at the Zurich film festival in septem-
ber 2017. This film review consists of an interview with Enyedi focusing on the
interactions between religion and film in this new work and more generally in
her cinematography.
You received the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury in Berlin.
How did you response to this?
it was a complete surprise for me. i was called to receive the fiPresCi award, the
prize of the international film critics, and I didn’t realise that I would receive the Ecu-
menical award at the same time. it was a wonderful surprise.
DOI: 10.25364/ 05.3:2017.2.8
JRFM
Journal Religion Film Media, Volume 03/02
- Title
- JRFM
- Subtitle
- Journal Religion Film Media
- Volume
- 03/02
- Authors
- Christian Wessely
- Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati
- Editor
- Uni-Graz
- Publisher
- Schüren Verlag GmbH
- Location
- Graz
- Date
- 2017
- Language
- English
- License
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Size
- 14.8 x 21.0 cm
- Pages
- 98
- Categories
- Zeitschriften JRFM