Lovefilm
István Szabó’s LOVEFILM was and remains revolutionary for its time: a love story that spans decades, about a pair of childhood friends in Hungary who are reunited as adults in Paris. The result is tender, sharp and political: It’s easy to see both Szabó’s European New Wave influences and his impact on future directors like Paweł Pawlikowski. LOVEFILM is equal parts intellectual and artful, brimming with passion and simmering with grief.
Judit Halász, András Bálint, Edit Kelemen
- Notes From Mike MillsLOVEFILM is a love story and also about Hungarian history in the 1950s and ’60s. It starts in childhood and goes through the characters’ teenage years to their 20s—interweaving and overlaying small intimate details with big historical moments, all brought together in a very memory-based subjective language. The film deals with time and memory in such a beautiful way, with characters thinking back but also acting in the present. It’s so lyrical, mysterious, and features repetitions that accrue meaning through the film, and it dissolves the line between the intimate and the social. It’s a very personal story that ended up changing my cinematic life and really influenced my film BEGINNERS.
