Kontroll

First-time writer-director Nimrod Antal's surreal thriller unfolds entirely within the confines of Budapest's extensive subway system, which looks just like New York's did back in the bad old TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE (1974) days: dirty, gloomy, bristling with barely controlled frustration and aslime with hookers, pimps and crooks. In another life, Bulcsu (Sandor Csanyi) was an up-and-coming white-collar executive, successful, admired and liked by his peers. But he caved under the pressure and dropped out for the life of a ticket controller, a municipal employee whom commuters treat with the same furious contempt motorists unleash on meter maids. Working in tea...