Love, the books and songs have taught us, can flourish in the unlikeliest of environments — in a cold climate, in a time of cholera, in an elevator. But the love story at the heart of Hungarian director Ildikó Enyedi‘s poker-faced, prickle-hearted eighth feature (she won the Cannes Camera d’Or for her debut, “My Twentieth Century” back in 1989) may have all of them beat: it takes place in a Budapest abbatoir.

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