Hungarian Academy Award winner’s new film among the most anticipated movies of 2018

As we reported before, Academy Award winner László Nemes-Jeles’s new movie titled Sunset was on the way. The shooting started in the summer and lasted for 53 days. The film’s premiere will be in summer 2018. According to index.hu, American magazine Variety anticipates – among others – this Hungarian movie most.

Academy Award winner Nemes-Jeles’s Sunset in the elite

To start with, Variety published a list of the most awaited movie releases in 2018. Interestingly,

Nemes-Jeles’s new movie can be found among Steven Spielberg’s, Jennifer Lawrence’s and Damien Chazelle’s new films.

Chazelle is the director of La La Land.

According to Variety’s film reviewer Alissa Simon, “after galvanizing Cannes and going on to win the foreign language Oscar with his debut Son Of Saul, Hungarian director Laszló Nemes set a high bar for his second feature. Although not much is known about Sunset, the clues look promising. It is another period piece, set in pre-WWI Budapest. And important ‘Saul’ collaborators such as co-writer Clara Royer, DP Mátyás Erdély and producers Gábor Rajna and Gábor Sipos are on board.”

We already know a bit more about the movie

For example, leading actress will be Juli Jakab playing Írisz Leiter who grew up in an orphanage. Later she arrives in Budapest hoping that she will be able to work in her parents’ legendary salon. However, the new owner Oszkár Brill (Vlad Ivanov) rejects her application. Írisz learns from a stranger that she has a brother named Kálmán. Thus, she begins searching for her family but doing so

she discovers a dark secret.