Photographie:
Zágon NagyMusique:
Tamás KreinerActeurs·trices:
Eszter Csonka, György Túrós, Csaba Krisztik, Éva Kerekes, János Papp, Gábor Ferenczi, Ferenc Gerlóczy, Viktória Szorcsik, Balázs Czukor (plus)Résumés(1)
Edina would do anything to be a world champion bodybuilder. Apart from her own ambition, her main motivating force is her partner Adam, himself a former top-flight muscleman, who fills her head with dreams that he can no longer attain. They don’t have the necessary funds for Edina’s training and performance-enhancing drugs, thus she is forced to accept work as an escort at a specialised agency… In Edina's case the body (in its colossal form) is the only thing that matters, at least from the perspective of the people around her. The phantasmal world of top-performance bodybuilding doesn’t even allow any other considerations. Neither does Adam. It’s not until she has a fleeting amorous encounter that Edina is reminded that she also has a soul which deserves adulation as well. (Karlovy Vary International Film Festival)
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Critiques (1)
Women's bodybuilding is completely foreign to me, so for me Gentle was first of all informative and enriching. But the film also managed to win me over story-wise. I was intrigued by the apparent contradiction between the hefty musculature and the fragile soul at the centre of which was the main character Edina, convincingly portrayed by the non-actress Eszter Csonka. I also liked the portrayal of the exceedingly strange relationship between Edina and Kristian (the monkey imitation was eerily convincing). Gentle is ultimately a sad tale of heartbreak, on a mental as well as a physical level.
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