Press
23rd Odense Film Festival
"A humanistic film that doesn’t underestimate the intelligence of its viewers, leaving room for imagination as well as raising some big questions about human responsibility in the face of tragedy. Very elaborately filmed in a single shot, a young woman on the fringes of a bigger event is in the centre of this wonderfully crafted film. The elegant camera work focuses on the main actress. The excellent sound track requires no dialogues. The Grand Prix goes to With A Little Patience / Türelem by László Nemes Jeles from Hungary."
The International Jury's evaluation
Filmkultúra, March 10 2007
“Laszlo Nemes’ With a Little Patience is one complete thought – the precise unity of form and content. A self-restrained, low-key vision, aimed at the heart of its subject, objective and subjective at the same time. It is the story of a recognition in one uninterrupted arc, in one divine gaze of illuminating power.” (…)
Júlia Széphelyi
Élet és Irodalom, February 13 2007
"In his character study dealing with human self-control and adaptability, Laszlo Nemes reaches the universal. The film, constituted of one, complex camera move recalling Miklos Jancso, follows the main character’s (Virag Marjai) face everywhere, whereas this closed face, behind the narrowly buttoned shirt, remains restlessly dedicated to her work, despite the surrounding events. The young director balances between showing and hiding with such bravado, that the people, objects and sounds making their way into the background - while hinting at the historical period and the situation – do not reveal the context until the very end. That is when the viewer discovers what kind of aims the woman, with focus and dedication, is serving, and what emotions dwell in her mind."
Lóránt Stőhr
Filmvilág, April 2007
"Laszlo Nemes’ With a Little Patience has received the Best short film award, and justifiably so, for the discipline of the form builds up every second of the film, from the enigmatic outset to the strict symmetry of the closing image. The 13-minute film seems to continue the success of recent Hungarian oners (Before Dawn, Execution). Matyas Erdely’s camera starts outside with a long shot, then moves inside while progressively narrowing the field of vision, following the main character’s undisturbed face, her daily routine work. A large part of the film takes place in an office, and while focusing on the woman’s face, the camera closes off the surroundings, at least until the end, when the vision widens anew, making obvious the nature of the office that we have just visited. With a Little Patience is different from its predecessors, mainly because it has been conceived with an extreme use of internal montage (thence making it even more interesting than Before Dawn from a film language point of view), and also thanks to its rich sound design by Tamas Zanyi, constructing a fine aucustic world out of little noises. It is an important film, and courageous as well, for it compresses into 13 minutes a subject to which millions of feet of celluloid have already been dedicated. And it does succeed, showing its subject from an entirely new standpoint."
Zsolt Pápai