Twilight (1990)
8/10
black and white and grey
18 June 2023
Some years ago I went for a weekend in Budapest and because there had been a delay of the plane, we arrived in the evening. We were on the Buda side up near the woods at a round hotel above the old town. In the morning we thrust back the curtains to look down at the river and the Pest side, but we couldn't see anything. It was just grey all the way round like a fog that only gradually lifted. In the film, Twilight (Szurkulet) it was in black and white and grey. Really slow but lovely as the detective investigates a series of child murders. A child that maybe mad tells us about a picture and a giant or a wizard who gave hedgehogs to the dead child. Although nothing is black and white about it and it seems that it not so friendly to give a child a chocolate hedgehog. There is much of the time in a car but it is still rather dark and grey and then the rain comes and the windscreen wipers struggle to overcome and it just seems as a long grey wall. The soundtrack is a strange but likeable sound although there is no credit given but it seems similar that it was like we heard in Werner Herzog's Nosferatu (1979).
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