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Cinema

Good hats – shame about the film: Sunset reviewed

1 June 2019

9:00 AM

1 June 2019

9:00 AM

Sunset is French-Hungarian writer-director Laszlo Nemes’s follow-up to his astonishing Oscar-winning debut, Son of Saul. This time round the film is set as the Austro-Hungarian Empire is on the brink of collapse, and it is confounding, but not in a good way, as it’s as turgid as it is baffling.

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