Happy New Life

Happy New Life

  • Overview
  • Cast
  • Crew

Status

Released

Release Date

Feb 1, 2007

Runtime

1h 20m

Genres

Drama

User Score

10%

Original Title

Boldog új élet

Production Companies

Laokoon Filmgroup

Director

Árpád Bogdán

Description

Árpád Bogdán's debut film seduces you with stylized visuals and an intensity that gives you an insight into the director's mind. His profound knowledge of the subject is evident throughout a film that is bereft of sex and violence. There is a poetic feel to the images that include a horse running wild on the streets of Budapest before it is caught and led into a horse trailer. The sequence is an eerie symbolic reminder of earlier visuals in the film of the young boy fleeing from parents/elders being arrested by police with the mother figure urging the child to run before he himself is caught and taken to an orphanage, psychologically scarred...(c) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944188/reviews