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SON OF SAUL

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Final Day - Thursday, March 3

DIRECTED BY LÁSZLÓ NEMES

Winner of the Grand Prize at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, this acclaimed Hungarian drama, set in Auschwitz, is directed and co-written by László Nemes and stars Géza Röhrig as a member of the camp’s Sonderkommando unit (Jewish prisoners who were forced to lead fellow victims to the gas chambers).

Click here to watch Charlie Rose’s interview with filmmaker László Nemes and star Géza Röhrig.

ACADEMY AWARD® WINNER! Best Foreign Language Film

WINNER! Golden Globe® Award   Best Foreign Language Film

WINNER!
Grand Prix - 2015 Cannes Film Festival
Best Foreign Language Film – National Board of Review, New York Film Critics Online
Best First Film – New York Film Critics Circle
Best Actor – Village Voice Critics’ Poll

BEST FILMS OF 2015!
▪ J. Hoberman, Tablet  ▪ Joe Morgenstern, The Wall Street Journal 
▪ Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York  ▪ Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly
▪ Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair  ▪ Eric Kohn, Indiewire  The Playlist (Indiewire)
▪ Anne Thompson, Thompson on Hollywood (Indiewire)
▪ Sight + Sound  ▪ Slant  ▪ Rex Reed, New York Observer
and many more!

Presented with generous support from the Joan S. Constantiner Fund for Jewish and Holocaust Film 

HUNGARY • 2015 • 107 MINS. • IN HUNGARIAN, GERMAN, AND YIDDISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES • 35mm • SONY PICTURES CLASSICS 

Reviews

“A STARTLING WORK OF GENIUS.”               
– Richard Cohen, NY Daily News

“REMARKABLE” 
– Anthony Lane, The New Yorker 

“AN ABSOLUTE MASTERPIECE.”
– Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly

“DEVASTATING. RIVETING. GRIPPING.”
– Andrew O’Hehir, Salon

“FASCINATING”
– J. Hoberman, Tablet

“A GREAT MOVIE.”
– Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal

“(A) MASTERWORK.”
– Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

*****! [5 STARS]
 “STAGGERING.”

– Dave Calhoun, Time Out New York

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