A COMMONPLACE STORY
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Hungary | 1975 | 100 min | bn | restored copy
A Hungarian Village’s characters return in this film: again, we meet the young women labourers and peasants, the grownups, and the kids. There are Marika and her mother too, their stories, their lives ruled by ancient habits and others’ points of view. Their shame and their determination. Judit Elek revisits the places of her previous film, reworking and reediting interviews, meetings, images from everyday life. She observes through her constantly mobile camera, painstakingly aimed at the imperceptible variations of the gazes, the hesitations, the words whispered and those uttered looking at the camera itself. The film establishes a dialogue with the previous film but it is a dialogue and an encounter in its own right; an intense dialogue between the one who films and those who are filmed in which the observation of reality is the point of departure for an unceasingly poetical gaze that keeps on exploring the inner world of the people through the visible elements that surround them. (d.d.)
Local Time
- Timezone: America/New_York
- Date: 06 Nov 2024
- Time: 12:30
Location
- Cinema Astra - Piazza Cesare Beccaria, 9 50121 Florence (FI)
Organizer
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Judit Elek
Judit Elek (born 10 November 1937) is a Hungarian film director and screenwriter. She directed 16 films. As a child, Judit survived the Second World War first in a sheltered house on Pozsonyi Street, Budapest, and then in the ghetto (November 1944 – January 1945). From 1956 to 1961, she studied at the University of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest, in the class of film director Félix Máriássy. Her classmates included Pál Gábor, Imre Gyöngyössy, Zoltán Huszárik, Ferenc Kardos, Zsolt Kézdi-Kovács, János Rózsa, Éva Singer and István Szabó. During this time she was a founding member of the Balázs Béla Studio, a workshop for experimental film. In 1968, Elek made her first feature film, Sziget a szárazföldön (The Lady from Constantinople). From the 1980s onwards, she made historical films such as The Trial of Martinovics and the Hungarian Jacobins (1980). In the 1990s, she shot films with a Jewish theme like Tutajosok (Memories of a River, 1990) and To speak the Unspeakable: The Message of Elie Wiesel (1996).
