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Son of Saul

Saul fia (Son of Saul)

2015

László Nemes

Géza Röhrig, Levente Molnár, Urs Rechn, Sándor Zsótér ...

6.6

12,441

Drama In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a jewish prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his own people finds moral survival upon trying to salvage from the flames the body of a boy he takes for his son.

	Author	Review
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"A Hungarian masterwork (...) You don't merely witness horror, you feel it in your bones (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"A powerful, immersive vision of hell (...) No matter how many Holocaust films you've seen, you've not seen one like this"	POS
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"Terrifying 'Son of Saul' is Unlike Any Other Holocaust Thriller You've Seen Before. (...) develops a powerful edge from the sheer devastating nature of its events, while resisting even the slightest overstatement."	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	This astonishing debut film, about a prisoner in the concentration camp employed in the industrial processes of body disposal, is a horror movie of extraordinary focus and courage (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United States	Chris Nashawaty Entertainment Weekly	"It's impossible to be a lover of cinema without having been down this road before in films like Schindler's List and The Pianist. But Nemes is telling his story in a revolutionary new way-and it's devastating"	POS
United States	Brian Tallerico rogerebert.com	"I can't remember a recent debut with the power of László Nemes' 'Son of Saul' (...) stunning piece of art (...) It is unlike anything you have seen before (...) It's unforgettable."	POS
United States	Boyd van Hoeij The Hollywood Reporter	"Utterly uneasy to watch but strikingly and confidently assembled, the film’s a powerful aural and visual experience."	POS
United States	Justin Chang Variety	"Hungarian helmer Laszlo Nemes (...) makes a powerful debut with this grim, unyielding Holocaust drama (...) a masterful exercise in narrative deprivation and sensory overload that recasts familiar horrors in daringly existential terms."	POS
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"It's a beat-the-clock thriller wrapped around an allegory."	POS

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