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Explanation for Everything

Play trailer Explanation for Everything 2023,  2h 31m,  Comedy/ Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist 83% 6 Reviews Tomatometer - - Popcornmeter
83% Tomatometer 6 Reviews Popcornmeter
It's summer in Budapest, high school student Abel is struggling to focus on his final exams, whilst coming to the realization that he is hopelessly in love with his best friend, Janka. The studious Janka has her own unrequited love with married history teacher Jakab -- who had a previous confrontation with Abel's conservative father. The tensions of a polarized society come unexpectedly to the surface when Abel's history graduation exam turns into a national scandal.

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Guy Lodge Variety Sep 6, 2023
Escalatingly absurd but underpinned by a mordant plausibility throughout... Go to Full Review
Fionnuala Halligan Screen International Sep 3, 2023
This film can be a joy to watch on a technical level – as fresh as the generation bubbling up whose classrooms are the setting for this humming drama. Go to Full Review
Leslie Felperin The Hollywood Reporter Sep 1, 2023
A perceptive take on Hungarian political conflict. Go to Full Review
Michael Sicinski In Review Online Apr 14, 2024
Not an equal opportunity satire... that’s not to suggest that Explanation for Everything is politically biased. It’s just rather half-assed, with Reisz taking the longest possible route to travel the shortest intellectual distance. Go to Full Review
C.J. Prince The Film Stage Sep 6, 2023
B
Starting out as an awkward comedy, the film builds itself up into one long, exasperated scream at the absurdity of how almost everything can be weaponized into political issues. Go to Full Review
Andrew Murray The Upcoming Sep 4, 2023
3/5
While it may take its time getting there, Explanation for Everything serves as an in-depth and honest look at how modern politics can so easily tear society apart with hatred. Go to Full Review
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Cast & Crew

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Gábor Reisz

Director

Gáspár Adonyi-Walsh

Ábel

István Znamenák

György

András Rusznák

Jakab

Rebeka Hatházi

Erika

Eliza Sodró

Dorka

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Movie Info

Synopsis It's summer in Budapest, high school student Abel is struggling to focus on his final exams, whilst coming to the realization that he is hopelessly in love with his best friend, Janka. The studious Janka has her own unrequited love with married history teacher Jakab -- who had a previous confrontation with Abel's conservative father. The tensions of a polarized society come unexpectedly to the surface when Abel's history graduation exam turns into a national scandal.
Director
Gábor Reisz
Producer
Julia Berkes
Screenwriter
Gábor Reisz, Schulze Éva
Genre
Comedy, Drama
Original Language
Hungarian
Runtime
2h 31m
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