Director: KRISZTINA GODA
Screwball comedy follows thirty-three-year-old theater dramaturg Dora (Judit Schell) who meets cute with swaggering actor Tamas (ubiquitous Kontroll star Sandor Csanyi) when she’s forced to a window ledge by the sudden arrival of her current lover’s wife. As exasperated Dora tells actress chum Zsofi (Kata Dobo), she wants a kid but as for the guy, it’s just sex and nothing else.
As she sorts things out with Tamas by way of composer Peter (Zoltan Seress) and Turkish counterman Ali (Antal Czapko), laughs are plentiful as the troupe grapples with her translation of Dangerous Liaisons. Unsurprisingly, relationship issues are generally treated with more frankness than in similar U.S. or Brit prods. Witty dialogue is delivered briskly by easy-on-the-eyes cast, with Karoly Gesztesi a hoot as play’s blustery helmer. Glossy tech package presents a sophisticated, picturesque Budapest. Pic won the screenplay prize at the recently concluded 2006 Hungarian Film Week. — Eddy Cockrell, Variety
(In Hungarian w/Eng. subtitles)
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HUNGARY • 2006 • 97 MINUTES • DIRECTOR: KRISZTINA GOD
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