Hukkle

Hungary • 2002

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Film poster for 'HUKKLE' directed by Gygory Palfi. The image features a large, artistic red face with distorted features, with pink and grayscale pigs with human eyes in front of it.

An old man hiccups. He shuffles slowly about his morning ritual and then takes his place on a bench outside his cottage, beside the road, still hiccuping. A goose goes about its business. Flies buzz. A cat earns its living. A runaway cart causes a stir in the village. The old man hiccups.

A lovingly photographed natural history, these opening shots announce György Pálfi's Hukkle as a film that will proceed in its own way to its own destination, without regard to convention. The film is told almost entirely without dialogue, but is alive to sound; we spend observant, introspective hours in a Hungarian hamlet where nothing much seems to happen -- oh, except that there's a suspicious death...

A mesmerizing pastoral symphony. Finely attuned to the sensual possibilities, both in nature and in cinema.

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75 minutes
Hungarian, Czech
English
Color
1.85:1
5.1

György Pálfi
Ferenc Bandi, Józsefné Rácz, József Farkas, Ferenc Nagy

Director & writer
Starring

  • “If you're attracted to pure, exquisitely photographed cinematic depictions of the world, you could almost lie down in 'Hukkle’ as if it were a meadow and soak in its sun-drenched atmosphere.”

    Stephen Holden

    New York Times

  • “A mesmerizing, nearly wordless pastoral symphony.”

    Scott Tobias

    AV Club

  • “A lovingly photographed natural history of a day of village life. Some audience members will find it maddening.”

    Roger Ebert

    Chicago Sun-Times

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A yellow background movie poster for 'HUKKLE' directed by György Pálfi, featuring two overlapping red-tinted faces with black shadows, pink pig shapes with eyeballs, and a bottle at the bottom.

DETAILS

Region A Blu-ray

  • Village Secrets: Making Hukkle - Interview with filmmaker György Pálfi and co-writer Zsófia Ruttkay

  • A hal (short film)

  • Shaman vs Icarus (short film)

  • Theatrical Trailer

  • Booklet with an essay by Josh Hurtado

  • Complete Hukkle script

  • Slipcover art by Aleksander Walijewski

  • English subtitles

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* Also available, György Pálfi's short films A Hal (1997), Shaman vs Icarus (2003), and I Will Not Be Your Friend (2009)