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A Masterpiece!

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

I saw this film years ago and it really stuck with me. Long, brooding shots, cinematography that evokes Tarkovsky, deserted landscapes and intense characterization. So many films from this part of the world that have never been seen by most people - it brings to mind another Hungarian film 'Time Stands Still', a masterpiece which remains in obscurity today. Masnap I somehow acquired on a busted old VHS tape, and have watched the film repeatedly in that format. It has proved difficult to acquire a better copy. I've seen two of Attila Janisch's films, and found they both contained a strong, clear vision and a haunting tone. I hope to see more.

I saw this film at the Seattle International Film Festival. The director was in attendance and provided much insight on the deeper themes of the film. It is based on a true story.He said he tried to make it like real life, as you are going along the little fragments or events may not seem very important, but when you get to the end and look back then you see their impact. He also said that the landscape was the most important character in the film. The film was divided into chapters; The Sky, The Dust, The Wind and The Road. To me these reflected the elements of the painting that the camera repeatedly lingered on during the film. Yes, it is depressing. But I think there is more. This film is about evil and the way it grows. The nameless man starts off as an innocent bystander. Picking up bits and pieces of the characters conversations he starts to form an opinion about a girl he has never met. In the scene where he inspects her room, you can almost see the hatred growing within him. Hatred for some vile woman who only exists in his head. By the end it completely consumes him and he stalks her through the grass (in a hauntingly beautiful overhead shot), then rapes and kills her.The director said it's about sin. It is about social responsibility. Was it partly the villager's fault that this man killed the girl? So often we think our words have no effect, it is only a little comment, I am not going out and murdering anyone, but these can have bigger consequences than we may think.

Poor Andrei Tarkovski....The story is about a middle-aged man, probably a photographer from a big city, who arrives to a lone countryside, into a world of the struggling small farms, where the locals are poor_loser_caricatures, who are not_so_helpful, primitive, but sometimes secretive and almost always rude for the stranger and play disgusting and violent games among them. Our man arrives to a land, when the time seems to be frozen and the opportunity of the return (escape maybe) is offered very soon to him, even before the opening titles run down. The suspense starts, but will fade away to nowhere with the sympathy of the audience. The chopped and mixed episodes are repeated with small alterations, and big confusion (see Pulp Fiction or Mulholland Drive), but the movie runs with a very slow pace and focusing a lot on the treasures of the nature (tiny hills, gentle slopes, leafy trees, a beautiful and mysterious creek) and sleazy, dirty indoors with worn-out countrymen waiting for the hopeless redemption (see Stalker). The movie 'Másnap' is a missed opportunity for a good and tasty film. The outdoor shots are delightful for the fans of the original and perfect cinematography, but the indoors are dull and sometimes even stupid. The feeling of a timeless, unforgiving world with multiple spaces and times for one act is defined deliberately and on a fine way, but for nothing as the following episodes are dull and annoying. The film borrows some pictures from Tarkovski (Solaris, Stalker), Kurosawa (Rashomon), Hitchcock basics and even from Kobayashi's Kwaidan, but there is no connection, no purpose for them.The scene follows the murder, when the stone is thrown to the creek and we see the water to flow and the water-plants bending, is a direct copy from Andrei Tarkovski and is very painful near to the end of the struggling and tiring, time-wasting film. The world of Másnap has nothing common with the great Tarkovski movies, and no real connection to Hitchcock or Kurosawa...The script is divided for parts as 'The Sky', 'The Dust', 'The Wind' and 'The Road' but it makes no difference: it is a flop with a lot of stolen motifs from the classics with no real dialog, no real story, no coherence. The slow pace, strange faces and dialogs are just like in a bad dream, but a dream is not as long as this disaster.So the result is about 50 % - it should have been completed, mainly with the scissors...

In short avoid this film.Before watching this film the director told the audience that it may not make sense as we watched it (as time is not sequential and the lead character has memory problems) but by the final scene it would all reveal itself to us.*** Slight Spolier but very important ***He lied. The direction and the changing time points without of knowledge kept us interested and we needed to know how it all knits together but the ending was so weak with no explanation of why the character(s) were motivated to do it. Very disappointed.