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László Nemes

May 2026

  • Director László Nemes extends both hands toward the camera

    ‘An orgy of antisemitism is overtaking the west’: Son of Saul’s László Nemes on Hollywood hypocrisy

  • Film still: Moulin directed by László Nemes, starring Gilles Lellouche

    Moulin review – László Nemes’s resistance hero drama is chilling, stirring and surprisingly conventional

April 2026

  • Headshots of Gillian Anderson, John Travolta, Rami Malek, and Cara Delevingne

    Gillian Anderson and Cara Delevingne to hit Cannes as auteur heavyweights dominate festival lineup

    The 79th edition of the film festival will see work by Pedro Almodóvar, Hirokazu Kore-eda and László Nemes considered for the coveted Palme d’Or

January 2026

  • Filmmaker Afternoon Teas - The 69th BFI London Film FestivalLONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 15: Director László Nemes poses for a portrait session at the Filmmaker Afternoon Teas during the 69th BFI London Film Festival at the Sea Containers on October 15, 2025 in London, England. (Photo by Shane Anthony Sinclair/Getty Images for BFI)

    double quotation markBéla Tarr’s furious quest for cinematic perfection made him my ideal, impossible mentor

    László Nemes
    The Son of Saul director recalls how getting his first job as assistant to the austere master was a hard but inspiring lesson in the most ambitious kind of movie-making

August 2025

  • Awful truth … Bojtorján Barábas and Grégory Gadebois in Orphan.

    Orphan review – László Nemes’ fable of resentment and rage in post-uprising Hungary

    This always interesting film-maker displays impressive technical control in this painful, sombre story about a boy who meets the father he never knew

January 2025

  • Kieran Culkin and Jesse Eisenberg.

    ‘Every day is 24 hours of panic to just get out the door’: Jesse Eisenberg on self-indulgence, candid aunts and his Oscar-tipped Holocaust comedy

    The writer-director of A Real Pain and co-stars Kieran Culkin, Jennifer Grey and Will Sharpe talk about being overcome by generational trauma while making Oscar season’s funniest film

December 2024

  • Composite image showing (from left) Chloé Zhao, Luca Guadagnino, and Claire Denis

    2025 culture preview
    Auteurs assemble! Why 2025 offers a banquet of movies by cinema’s great creators

    Malick, Ramsay, Bigelow, Denis, Guadagnino, Zhao: cinema’s most exciting visionaries are all back with new films this year. And then there’s Iñárritu directing Tom Cruise …

March 2024

  • László Nemes (left) and Jonathan Glazer.

    Jonathan Glazer’s Oscars speech condemned by Son of Saul director: ‘He should have stayed silent’

    In a statement shared with the Guardian, László Nemes says The Zone of Interest director’s speech ‘resorted to talking points disseminated by propaganda meant to eradicate all Jewish presence’

May 2020

  • Salvatore Cascio in Cinema Paradiso (1988)

    'I barely breathed': Tilda Swinton, Emma Thompson, Steve McQueen and more on their most memorable moments at the movies

    From transformative nights in the grubbiest of fleapits to spellbinding screenings under the stars, film-makers and critics recall the communal thrill of going to the cinema

December 2019

  • US Films of 2019. No 1 - Parasite

    Top US films 2019
    The 50 best films of 2019 in the US: the full list

  • UK Films of 2019. No 1 - The Irishman

    Top UK films 2019
    The 50 best films of 2019 in the UK: the full list

September 2019

  • From left: Moonlight, The Handmaiden, There Will Be Blood, Under the Skin

    Best culture of the 21st century
    The 100 best films of the 21st century

    Gangsters, superheroes, schoolkids, lovers, slaves, peasants, techies, Tenenbaums and freefalling astronauts – they’re all here in our countdown of cinema’s best movies since 2000

June 2019

  • Juli Jakab as Írisz Leiter in Sunset.

    Sunset review – murky Hungarian drama

    A young woman seeks her way in pre-first world war Budapest

May 2019

  • "Sunset" UK Premiere - 62nd BFI London Film Festival<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 15: Director Laszlo Nemes attends the UK Premiere of "Sunset" at the 62nd BFI London Film Festival on October 15, 2018 in London, England. (Photo by Tim P. Whitby/Getty Images for BFI)

    Son of Saul's László Nemes: 'Our civilisation is preparing for its own destruction'

    The director of the Auschwitz-set Oscar-winner senses dark times ahead – and believes blockbusters are partly responsible. Is that why his second film, Sunset, is so baffling?

September 2018

  • Luca Guadagnino, second right, on the Venice red carpet with the stars of Suspiria: (l-r) Chloë Grace Moretz, Bradley J Fischer, Tilda Swinton, Jessica Harper, Malgorzata Bela and Mia Goth.

    Venice 2018 roundup: from old-school masterpiece to delirious horror, it's been a vintage year

  • Sunset (Napszállta) by László Nemes starring Juli Jakab. Film still from the Venice Film Festival

    Sunset review – intrigue and terror as the shadow of war falls on Budapest

December 2016

  • Why didn’t it win the Palme d’Or? ... Son of Saul.

    Top UK films 2016
    The 50 best films of 2016 in the UK: No 2 Son of Saul

    As our countdown continues, Andrew Pulver looks back on a harrowing Holocaust drama from Hungarian director László Nemes

July 2016

  • Géza Röhrig in Son of Saul.

    Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
    Son of Saul; Labyrinth of Lies; Secret in Their Eyes; Strangerland; The Girlfriend Experience – review

    Lázló Nemes’s Oscar-winning Holocaust drama puts the competition to shame

May 2016

  • Geza Rohrig as Saul, a Hungarian-Jewish prisoner forced to work in the gas chambers.

    Mark Kermode's film of the week
    Son of Saul review – profoundly, soul-shakingly distressing

    This haunting vision of the hell inside Auschwitz seen through the eyes of prisoner forced to help in the gas chambers is traumatic and overpowering

April 2016

  • Son of Saul

    Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
    Son of Saul review – a stunning, excoriating Holocaust drama

    László Nemes’s debut, about a prisoner at Auschwitz forced to work in the gas chambers, dramatises the concentration camps with great intelligence, seriousness and audacity
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