For Some Inexplicable Reason

Running time: 89 mins

"She took her hair from the drain and left me." Now what? "She said I was immature. I don't know what mature is." Poor Aron. With no job, no prospects, and now no girlfriend, he's completely at loose ends. From the wonderful opening montage (that gives new meaning to "falling down laughing"), he's a hapless hero with an impervious sad-sack insouciance, stumbling through a dizzying skein of misadventures and near catastrophes to a truly satisfying, emotionally honest conclusion Director-writer-cinematographer and co-composer Gabor Reisz's joyful debut film already has European audiences standing and applauding Aron's vain attempts to make sense of the inexplicable. A love letter to youth, Budapest, being confused, and taking things as they come, the film is, quite simply, a sheer delight.