My Twentieth Century (1989) Az én XX. századom
My Twentieth Century (1989)
BDRip | MKV | 768x576 | x264 @ 3947 Kbps | 103 min | 2,95 Gb
Audio: Magyar AAC 1.0 @ 144 Kbps | Subs: English (embedded in MKV)
Genre: Art-house, Comedy, Drama
BDRip | MKV | 768x576 | x264 @ 3947 Kbps | 103 min | 2,95 Gb
Audio: Magyar AAC 1.0 @ 144 Kbps | Subs: English (embedded in MKV)
Genre: Art-house, Comedy, Drama
Director: Ildikó Enyedi
Writer: Ildikó Enyedi
Stars: Dorota Segda, Oleg Yankovskiy, Paulus Manker
Separated identical twins ride an Orient Express unaware of each other: a feminist anarchist and a hedonistic courtesan, living under the powder-keg Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Separate families adopted the impoverished orphans. At the dawn of the 20th Century the double-blind experiment hits crescendo for Dora and Lili, born the evening Edison unveiled his incandescent bulb. In 1900, technology was accelerating; could women's rights and national self-determination keep pace?
A film of great charm, beauty and invention and yet it's almost totally unknown, Ildiko Enyedi's debut "My Twentieth Century" is ripe for rediscovery. It's the story of twin girls, Dora and Lili, (both played by Dorotha Segda), born in Budapest in 1880 but separated in early childhood, one growing up to be an anarchist, the other a courtesan. It's also the story of the inventions of one Thomas Edison and it's wonderfully shot in black and white, with nods to the silent cinema, by Tibor Mathe. Darting all over the place with no concessions to reality it feels, at times, like it could have been made by Max Ophuls early in his career and at other times like something from the Czech New Wave and you might even be forgiven for thinking that Miguel Gomes may have seen this before making "Tabu". Gorgeous, mysterious and unmissable.
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My Twentieth Century (1989) Az én XX. századom
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