Strange as it may seem, the slaughterhouse will provide the unorthodox background for a timid affair between the tender outcasts, who, even though they seem to be polar opposites, a small theft within the company's walls will prove that those two definitely share an eerie and almost spiritual bond. However, are the two dreamers, Endre and Mária, ready to embrace the catharsis of love on both body and soul?
6 June 1983, Budapest, Hungary
October 4, 1991 in Szombathely, Hungary
26 October 1986, Révkomárom, Czehslovakia [now Slovakia]
April 26, 1970 in Szár, Hungary
March 31, 1961 in Budapest, Hungary
December 6, 1984 in Budapest, Hungary
December 26, 1993 in Mosonmagyaróvár, Hungary
August 25, 2018
Partially shot in a real slaughterhouse, the film is visually and conceptually both beautiful and viscerally sickening, a fascinating exploration of loneliness and attention in an unusual environment.February 24, 2017
Morcsányi endows his character with the sad, lived-in expression of a man resigned to his drab routine, but it's breakout talent Borbély who truly emerges as the movie's star.February 10, 2017
A rich and strange tale of thwarted sexuality that takes a tad too long to get to the point.February 01, 2018
The plot mechanism that links these ideas and images is, we'll just say, grossly misjudged.February 10, 2017
A determinedly eccentric but intermittently startling misfit romance that marks a singular return to feature filmmaking for Hungarian writer-director Ildikó Enyedi after an 18-year gap.May 08, 2018
Call this an extreme rom-com... finely crafted and utterly mesmerising.May 08, 2018
At once strange and compelling, Enyedi Ildiko's unique and fascinating film draws us in with subtle wisps of character intrigue and harsh reality.May 08, 2018
Undeniably fresh; if it's a rom-com, it's unlike any you've seen ... perhaps the film is, indeed, courageous and a little cutting-edge. Whatever. It's heart-warming, uplifting, funny and different. And that's more than enough.May 09, 2018
It's a love story and one of the most startling, original, and poised films of the year.May 04, 2018
One of the most curious yet appealing romances you're likely to seeSeptember 26, 2017
It's a slow, quiet and beautifully composed story about human connection, or more specifically, the difficulty in finding it.August 26, 2018
On Body and Soul is the power of dreams manifested, mixed with crushing reality of languid love, an emotion with as many mixed signals as the fantasies they're meant to evoke.