Juli
Etel
A young court bailiff's first eviction case turns into a nightmare because of a desperate old lady who is willing to sacrifice everything to keep her home.
Léna
In EVOLUTION, acclaimed filmmaking team Kornél Mundruczó and Kata Wéber (PIECES OF A WOMAN) return with a powerful drama tracing three generations of a family, from a surreal memory of World War II to modern day Berlin, unable to process their past in a society still coping with the wounds of its history. Like the water that connects the episodes in this triptych, memory and identity are fluid, and how we relate to it can drown or buoy. The pain and stigma that trickles from Eva, to Lena and then Jonas is inexpressible, yet rendered with striking imagery by Mundruczó and a wrenchingly poignant yet acerbically ironic and personal script by Weber. While generational traumas find new expression in the present, the family in EVOLUTION looks towards a more hopeful future
Éva
진정한 사랑이라고 믿었던 연인에게 배신당하고, 매일 눈물로 지새우던 비련의 여인 ‘도라’. 설상가상 삶의 유일한 낙인 디저트 카페 ‘크림’까지 잃을 위기에 처한다. 카페를 되살리기 위한 타개책으로 ‘가족 사업 대상 지원 대회’에 참여하기 위해 ‘도라’는 치과 의사 ‘마르시’, 이웃집 꼬마 ‘라시카’와 계약 가족을 급조해 상금을 획득하기 위한 고군분투를 시작한다. 전 남친과 그의 부인이 경쟁자로 등장하는 웃픈 상황 속에서 ‘도라’는 ‘마르시’에게 점점 끌리기 시작하는데…
Story of a fake heart attack which ends with a real heartbreak.
Gabi
안나는 40세로 항상 바쁘다. 그녀는 세 아이들과 남편 그리고 경제적 스트레스를 가지고 있다. 안나는 마감 시간을 지키고, 약속을 하고, 만사를 다 챙기고, 집에 필요한 물건을 가지고 오며 모든 것을 기억한다. 그녀는 남편과 대화를 나누고 싶지만 도무지 잡히지 않는 그를 잃어가는 것만 같다. 그녀는 계속해서 나타나는 문제들을 항상 모면할 수 없다고 느낀다. 매일 같은 충돌, 참을 수 없는 단조로움, 취약함 그리고 독특함.
Peti's Mom
Kata lives with her husband and 12 year old son, Peti in a housing estate. One day something terrible happens to Peti. The parents have one night to decide how to handle it.
Dr. Eszter Kiss
Set in a large apartment in Hungary during the death throes of communism, obedient Andor lives with his eccentric mother, Rebeka, a once-celebrated stage actress-turned-recluse. After years of coexisting in a love-hate relationship marked by routine and possible incest, Andor brings home Eszter, a beautiful girl his own age. Her advances awaken Andor's repressed desires, the depths of which prove shocking. Opera director Robert Alfoldi renders this bizarre story in a melodramatic style, and veteran Hungarian stage star Dorottya Udvaros rises to the occasion. If you can imagine the intersecting area on a Venn diagram that includes Taxidermia and Sunset Blvd., that's where Where Were You, My Son? was born. The original title, Nyugalom, which translates to Tranquility, is ironic to say the least. ...over the-top...memorable...thunderous...sex and violins (Variety).
Kati
Underrated in light of its current (February 4, 2007) IMDb score of 6.4, this film reminded me of what Joseph Heller's 'Something Happened' could look like if a film was to be made out of it. Our middle-aged character's life is in a fragile balance at the start and soon that balance will, of course, be disturbed. Even without much in the way of drama at first, an at times nightmarish reality intermingles with nightmares, and, typically for a movie from this region, state bureaucracy and the absurdities of a semi-legal order play a role in moving developments along. So what is it that awaits our hero down the informal road he is officially sent? Complete deconstruction? Or the 'unbearable lightness of being'? If you give the movie the time to unfold, it will reward you revealing an entertaining concept by the end.
