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Félix Lajkó, Orsi Tóth, Lili Monori, Sándor Gáspár, Gabor Fabian ... see more see more... , Tamas Polgar , János Zancea

Hungarian director Kornel Mundruczo (Johanna) helmed this bucolic incest-themed drama. The picture reflects on man's need to re-bond with his natural habitat, and meditates on the unseemly consequence... read more read more...s of fraternal love that drifts into unacceptable territory. Felix Lajko stars as the unnamed protagonist, who hearkens back to his family's agrarian home after years away. Unkempt, unshaven and noticeably laconic, he makes contact with his sister (Orsi Toth of Johanna), his mother (Lili Monori) and his mother's recent husband, a brutish sociopath (Sandor Gaspar) - who uniformly toil away in a decrepit local pub. In time, the lead character and his sister move into their deceased father's abandoned property, set about constructing a house and a pier, and consummate an extremely intimate relationship as they begin to experience a more deep-seated and harmonious relationship with the natural world around them. When the others find out, however, they react in utter horror, shunning and ridiculing the couple and driving the story to a heartbreaking conclusion. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi

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Unrated, 1 hr. 50 min.

Directed by: Kornél Mundruczó

Release Date: April 1, 2009

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Rick Groen
September 25, 2009
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail

For all its lofty thematic intentions, this thing has precious little to say. Full Review

Eddie Cockrell
October 18, 2008
Eddie Cockrell, Variety

A beautifully atmospheric vessel that will seem infinitely deep to some and chafingly dry to others. Full Review

Deborah Young
June 4, 2008
Deborah Young, Hollywood Reporter

Unreal characters and story shackle this gloomy tale of unconventional love between a long-lost brother and sister.

A.O. Scott
May 22, 2008
A.O. Scott, New York Times

Delta is a Hungarian film that rigorously upholds the conventions of the festival art film genre. Full Review

Chris Cabin
March 18, 2010
Chris Cabin, Filmcritic.com

quiet and acute, but its central relationship suggests sublime lunacy that is never realized. Full Review

Avi Offer
March 11, 2010
Avi Offer, NYC Movie Guru

Quietly moving, well-nuanced, lyrical and breathtaking to behold. Full Review

Cole Smithey
March 10, 2010
Cole Smithey, ColeSmithey.com

Having played in competition at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, Korneo Mundruczo's plaintive contemplation of the deceptive duality between natural beauty and nature's immutable laws--as both broken an... Full Review

David Fear
March 10, 2010
David Fear, Time Out New York

Mundruczó works this stock tale into a deliberately paced parable of desire and dread. Full Review

Joseph Jon Lanthier
March 8, 2010
Joseph Jon Lanthier, Slant Magazine

A putatively humanistic film that succeeds more indelibly as a mythic image-poem. Full Review

Dennis Schwartz
March 3, 2010
Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

A gloomy fable about Eastern European misery and incest along the Danube, that's semi-interesting without being interesting. Full Review

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