Twilight
First up, no, not that Twilight. There’s no room for ancient vampires chasing virginal teenagers in 1990’s Szürkület (to give it its original Hungarian title), directed by György Fehér and shot in a distinctive black and white. The story is by Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt and would be used again in 2001’s The Pledge, the existential murder thriller directed by Sean Penn where Jack Nicholson’s detective on the point of retirement makes a promise to a grieving family that he’ll find the killer of their murdered child, a promise that drives him to the brink of madness. It’s the same here, but Fehér’s treatment couldn’t be more different from Penn’s if he’d tried … Read more