Directed by Hungarian first time director Gyorgy Palfi, Hukkle is a daring, unusual and refreshingly original film. A crime mystery film where the mystery is not the crime but life itself. Life and its circularity. A tale about the natural cycle of birth and death.
An old woman sells poison in tiny bottles which cause the death of one of the villagers. A local policeman investigates this murder. He’s the son of the village bee-keeper. The bees pollinate the farms which contain the wheat that the families eat and the old woman uses to make her venom.
There’s no plot as such but a lot of different themes woven together through the most original cuts. In fact, it feels as if the director is presenting you with lots of different elements so you can put them together and make whatever you want out of them, just like life itself.

The final result is a beautiful film, full of carefully crafted compositions which flow one into another with astonishing fluency.
Ooops, and it’s dialogue-free. Chapeau!
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