Son of Saul's reviews
Media reviews
Entertainment Weekly
Nemes is telling his story in a revolutionary new way?and it?s devastating. There?s no room for sentimentality or conventional Hollywood narative in his film.
The Washington Post
Thanks to his taste, rigor and superb sense of control, Nemes manages to create images that are both discreet and graphic, respectful and confrontational, inspiring and unsparing.
Time
Röhrig isn?t an experienced actor. In fact, he?s a poet and a former kindergarten teacher, living in the Bronx. But that could be what makes the performance so magnetic.
El País
Literally. to provoke the audience the feeling of being inside a barracks, a death row (...) A cracking the issue of traveling as a moral issue of Godard, an antidote to the theory of abjection of Rivette, one so clevarly hook taboos Lanzmann representation.
El Mundo
It's huge cinema built from intimacy. It's a film that hurts, sweeps and, finally, open your eyes.
Variety
Possessed by the same single-minded intensity that drives its protagonist's every step, 'Son of Saul' plunges the viewer into a hell that exists beyond the limits of comprehension or representation.
Rolling Stone
There's nothing trivial about this Hungarian masterwork from first-time director László Nemes. You don't merely witness horror, you feel it in your bones.
Fotogramas
Today it feels that the film has already addressed the issue of all possible good and bad ways, but this new Hungarian filmmaker has achieved what seemed impossible. Show, once again, the same story, but from a totally new perspective.
Cinemanía
Nemes portrays the horror of the Holocaust portrayed both times, but find a new way to do a new point of view, oppressive, hardly open the camera off the face of the main protagonist
The Hollywood Reporter
Utterly uneasy to watch but strikingly and confidently assembled, the film is a powerful aural and visual experience that doesn?t quite manage to sustain itself over the course of its running time, but is a remarkable ? and remarkably intense ? experience nonetheless.