Hukkle

Hukkle is a 2002 Hungarian film. It's about the daily life of people in a random village which seems beautiful and harmless , but there is something mysterious going on.  It begins with an old man who has hiccups, and takes place in front of his house near a can of milk.  He observes the daily habits of the villagers, and the viewer is shown many sequences about different events. Elsewhere ,an old man prepares food and a man goes fishing . Life cycles dominate as Palfi invites us into a cruel world where everything's struggling for survival and everything is liable to be munched on by something else. The cinematography is exquisite and full of surprises . There's also a vague thriller element and some amusing visual humour, but really much of the enjoyment is seeing the interconnectedness of rural life : a frog skims across a pond , before being snapped up by a large fish ,which is hooked by a fisherman and so on.