My Twentieth Century

Name: My Twentieth Century
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: November 9, 1990
Duration: 104 min
Rating: 81
Cast: Andrej Schwartz, Dorota Segda, Endre Koronczi, Gabor Mate, Gyula Kéry

1990

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Kino Lorber | Release Date: November 9, 1990 | Not Rated

Starring: Andrej Schwartz, Dorota Segda, Endre Koronczi, Gabor Mate, Gyula Kéry, Oleg Yankovskiy, Paulus Manker, Péter Andorai, Sándor Czvetkó, Sándor Téri

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Awarded the Camera d'Or at Cannes in 1989.

Summary: On the eve of the 20th century, two twin girls, Lili the anarchist and Dóra a luxurious woman of loose morals, along with Mr. Z. who loves them as an entity, all reach the Hungarian border at the same time on board the Orient Express. Their story, rushing under the spell of Edison’s inventions, is a special ‘research of happiness’,On the eve of the 20th century, two twin girls, Lili the anarchist and Dóra a luxurious woman of loose morals, along with Mr. Z. who loves them as an entity, all reach the Hungarian border at the same time on board the Orient Express. Their story, rushing under the spell of Edison’s inventions, is a special ‘research of happiness’, reclaiming the ‘mass murdering century’ from the restlessly changing world and the miracle of existence. [Kino Lorber]… Expand

Director: Ildikó Enyedi

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 104 min

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Vincent Canby

My 20th Century, a new Hungarian film written and directed by Ildiko Enyedi, is a number of wondrous things. It's a bracing combination of wit, invention, common sense and lunacy. It's a gravely comic meditation on civilization at the turn of this century. It's also about light and shadow and electricity, Thomas Alva Edison, movies and what it's like to be Hungarian in a world where no one is quite sure where Hungary is. Read full review

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

An elegant midsummer, end-century night’s dream of a film, with an elusive, gossamer lightness. Read full review

Kevin Thomas

My Twentieth Century (Times-rated Mature for sex, complex style and themes) remains on the whole buoyant and beguiling--and is surely among the most distinctive films to arrive this year. Read full review

Desson Thomson

Quite unintentionally, Ildiko Enyedi's My Twentieth Century demonstrates the importance of a good story in a film. The movie doesn't really have one, but this shortcoming, which keeps the Hungarian film unmistakably shy of greatness, is its only fault. Read full review

Hal Hinson

My 20th Century is like a dream, without a unifying logic -- ravishing fragments without coherence or meaning. Immersed somewhere in all this are Enyedi's meditations on the true nature of women, the shortcomings of 20th-century progress, and the connections between art and science. Yet though her own inventiveness and witty command of the medium are invigorating, her thinking is so scrambled that her originality is undermined. The movie is overintellectualized and yet not fully thought out. Read full review

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