it doesn not happen very often that i rate a movie positive . not even citizen cane get this high mark . but gloomy sunday really deserve it . a film that bring real pulsate life onto the big screen represent love ( mainly ) three men who try to find their luck with the same woman . friendship between two men and a woman . loyalty to the end . betrayal han turn out not to be a real friend of ilona and lászló . melancholia they do what they have to do and what life demand of them . passion in the good and the bad sense of that word . revenge not all sinner can get away with it and even if it take time . the background for all this be the 30 and 40 in budapest and hungary and the nazi threat right before your entrance door . you might argue that the song itself isn not as powerful a you might expect it . all right . but the script be superb and a story that could really have happen like this and a narrative that doesn not bore you and develop it character properly so you understand them . without inflate them to some unrealistic capsule . the figure aren not paint black and white and there be the grey you usually find in real life . the performance of the main actor be superb . thinking of ben becker and joachim król this isn not a surprise . but also erika marozán and stefano dionisi and which i haven not see in another movie before and do everything to grant them an academy award . maybe i can not express my admiration properly in english ( which be a foreign language for me ) and but if anything i write give you the idea that the movie might be interest . give it a try .