a hidden treasure
i had the extreme fortune to be able to see this in a hungarian cinema class where the professor had brought his own dvd collection and played them on a region 0 player. i had no idea hungary made so many awesome films...i had known about istvan szabo, but not much beyond that. anyways, in the last two weeks, we saw valami amerika and kontroll, and while kontroll was the one that got international acclaim and release, valami was by far the better. i don't know what it was about it, but i found it both hilarious and endearing. i feel like it's the type of film that could be made in french canada about the same language divide... and is it just me or does the main guy resemble jack davenport, who plays steve on the bbc show 'coupling'? anyways, i'm thinking that this film is almost reason enough to get a region 0 dvd player and import it for myself from hungary. (or maybe visit there someday...)
anyways, you lucky hungarians, it seems you have a fantastic little industry with some genuine talent. i'm going to keep my eyes peeled for all the hungarian films that come my way.