On Body and Soul (2017)

Academy Awards, USA 2018

Nominee Oscar

Best Foreign Language Film of the Year Hungary

Netflix
Directed by Ildikó Enyedi
My rating: 1.5 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(Netflix)

At a Hungarian slaughterhouse, "mating powder" goes missing. The police suggest they hire a psychologist to perform personality tests on all of the employees to identify a suspect. One of the questions she asks is about their recent dreams. This reveals that the manager and a recently hired meat inspector are having the same dream. After confirming it independently, the strike up a friendship. He is older and mostly given up on dating, she is young and attractive but suffers from crippling autism. They have sex one night in the dream (as deer), which they embarrassingly admit the next day. However, they are unable to do the same in real life because of their lack of social skills. He dumps her one day at work, sending her into a suicidal spiral, which she barely survives. Simply awful film with graphic scenes in the slaughterhouse whose only purpose I can think of is to numb us to the equally graphic suicide attempt at the end of the film. Also has one of the worst sex scenes I can ever remember.