Budapest Funzine and Odeon-Lloyd Cinema welcome you to our joint film club! We will present famous Hungarian films with English subtitles and host discussions with the film creators, where you can gain insight into the secrets of filmmaking in English.
March 26th at 8 p.m. – Moszkva t
ér (Moscow Square, 2001) Ferenc T
örök
Moszkva tér is a real location in Budapest, just as 1989 marks a real, significant year in the political history of Hungary. However, Peter and his friends are eighteen and couldn’t care less.
April 9th at 8 p.m. – Simon mágus (Simon, the Magician, 1999) Ildikó Enyedi
In this surrealistic movie from the director of My 20th Century, the French police seek help from Simon, a visionary living in Budapest, to solve a murder case. While in Paris, Simon falls in love with Jeanne despite not speaking each other’s languages.
April 16th at 8 p.m. – Csak szex és más semmi (Just Sex and Nothing Else, 2005) Krisztina Goda
Hungarian director Krisztina Goda’s witty and whimsical romantic comedy follows the travails of Dora (Judit Schell), a woman of the theater in her early-mid thirties, unnerved by the ticking of her own biological clock.
April 30th at 8 p.m. – Taxidermia (2006) György Pálfi
Three stories. Three generations. Three men. Taxidermia is about three generations in Hungary, beginning in the Second World War. It is surreal in nature, with dark comedy, and of course, a taxidermist.
May 14th at 8 p.m. – Nyócker! (The District!, 2004)
Áron Gauder
Dealing with relationships among Hungarians, Roma, Chinese and Arabs living in Budapest in a humorous way, The District! is an animated story of a few school kids oil-making time-travel and a Romeo and Juliet-type love of a Roma guy for a white girl.
May 28th at 8 p.m. – A nyomozó (The Investigator, 2008) Attila Gigor
A dark comedy about the adventures of a pathologist working in the morgue, Tibor Malkáv finds himself setting down a new path when he agrees to commit a murder for a large sum of money.
June 4th at 8 p.m. – Werckmeister harmóniák (Werckmeister Harmonies, 1989) Béla Tarr
At once horrifically bleak and breathtakingly beautiful, the film describes the aimlessness and anomie of a small town on the Hungarian plain that falls under the fascist influence of a sinister traveling circus lugging the immense body of a whale in its tow.
All films will be shown at Odeon-Lloyd Cinema.