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"Kontroll," the raucous and tender first film by the young Hungarian-American director Nimrod Antal, is set entirely in the Budapest subway. You could say that the movie is colored by subway moods: a grim sort of listlessness and deadpan wit alternating with spasmodic fits of activity and rage; the pallor of flesh seen under humming neon and fluorescent light, a pallor darkened, at times, with blood. Antal's heroes are a mangy bunch of ticket inspectors, who patrol the trains and platforms asking passengers to show their tickets or pay in cash. The Budapest subway, it seems, is run on the honor system, ...