Once the spray tan and stage makeup are washed away after her latest bodybuilding competition, Edina is immediately back at the gym. World championships are quickly approaching, and there’s more pressure riding on her proportionately built shoulders than ever. Adam, her partner and trainer, and former bodybuilding champion himself, closely monitors her food and supplement intake, criticizing any small misstep. As the financial, emotional, and physical burden of maintaining her lifestyle increases, Edina finds spiritual release in the unlikeliest of places — working as a specialty escort.
From the grueling workouts and controlling atmosphere at the gym to the playful, freewheeling nature of the escort service, Gentle deftly navigates Edina’s disparate worlds and the mounting friction between them. Co-directors Anna Nemes and László Csuja intimately explore the underbelly of an industry solely devoted to appearance, revealing its human cost. Nonprofessional actor Eszter Csonka delivers a powerful corporeal performance as Edina, using her sturdy physique to subtly evoke Edina’s internal struggle between cementing her legacy as a world champion and leaving it all behind to save herself.

本片是匈牙利年轻导演巴林特·茨姆勒的剧情长片首作，聚焦十岁男孩帕尔科从德国转学至匈牙利后，因自由散漫的作风与严苛校规格格不入，被贴上“问题儿童”的标签。体育老师的暴力体罚加剧了他的自我封闭，直至新来的文学教师尤西以同理心打破隔阂，与他共同挑战僵化的教育体制，展开一场关于创伤治愈与人性觉醒的无声抗争。师承超现实主义大师伊尔蒂科·茵叶蒂的巴林特·茨姆勒，以细腻冷冽的镜头语言剖开教育系统的暴力内核。影片入围第77届洛迦诺电影节当代电影人单元最佳影片，女主获得最佳女演员。