My Twentieth Century
Kino Lorber | Release Date: November 9, 1990 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
81
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Universal acclaim based on 5 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
1
Negative:
0
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The New York TimesVincent 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
80
Washington PostDesson 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
80
Los Angeles TimesKevin 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
80
The GuardianPeter Bradshaw
An elegant midsummer, end-century night’s dream of a film, with an elusive, gossamer lightness. Read full review
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