This features a fantastic performance from Eszter Tompa, who is so understated, humanistic, grounded, and real that you don't feel like you're watching someone who's acting.

There is almost no forward momentum after this point, but the film becomes a searing, often hilarious look at Orsolya’s guilt and the various people from whom she seeks absolution.

Jude is hardly precious about his craft. But that’s because he’s confident you’ll leave bursting with thoughts and feelings about the price of progress, the weight of history and the ways we struggle to do right amid so much that’s wrong.

In Kontinental '25, Jude does a lot with very little: he portrays the contradictions of an era full of uncertainties, films the playful and the sinister, and makes the city of Cluj something more than a mere backdrop. [Full review in Spanish]