Hungarian Fairy Tale
- surreal
Neutral, steady, measured fantasy / drama, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →Shot in B&W, Gyula Gazdag's film follows the surreal and often comic quests of young Andris, an orphan searching for a father who doesn't exist, and Orban, a government clerk who's had enough of oppressive bureaucracy.
Our read · Hungarian Fairy Tale (1987) reads as a neutral, steady, surreal fantasy · drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
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The shape of Hungarian Fairy Tale
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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