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From May 20 to 24, Moscow will host the 1st festival of Hungarian cinema Cifra -the only, by and large, the opportunity to see in Russia the last few achievements of the Hungarian film industry. Of the five films planned for the show, only the “White God” of Cornel Mundruzo reached the Russian limited rental (Cannes should be blamed for this). The rest are hardly even fans of torrents.

CIFRA offers its answer to the livelihood of a livelift question: "If not Tarr, then who?" According to this version, Hungarian cinema has at least two without five minutes of the classic - Cornell Mundruzo , whose film was recently at our limited rental, and Dierge Palfi, as well as several noticeable debutants. The diagnosis is optimistic, especially since the debut films selected for the show in Moscow are one hundred percent spectator work: one is more fun the other. Firstly, a courteous stylization for the ironic Hungarian detective “Lisa Lisa”, whose action takes place in the fictitious capitalist Hungary of the 1960s; Secondly, a delicate female comedy about ghosts “Life after life”; Thirdly, performed by ironic horror before the being of Coming -of -Age -a traveler “for no reason”, where the 29 -year -old graduate of the department of filming was picked up by Budapest and Lisbon with a gourmet of friends -Ochkariki and without any hope of growing up (all would be nothing, only mother is very sorry).

I have no doubt that each of these films is able to deliver considerable joy to the viewer, however, I would advise the most savvy to concentrate on the “free fall” of the aforementioned Dierzi Palfi, who managed to make an impressive path from Hungarian cinema to the notorious ENFANT for almost fifteen years of his career. Terrible , who is almost not given money in his homeland, which he regularly complains, threatening to change the profession in the very near future (he would try to stay with a film critic!). In order to delay the onset of this moment, the “fall” was partially funded by the Film Festival in Korean Chongj, and before Palfi, Korean festival producers were engaged in an exceptionally short meter; This is their full -length debut.

Dierdy Palfi, who once began the htonic detective of the “icon” and continued the surreal epic “taxiermy”, often called the absurdist, conducting the “black” humor, but this definition is not so accurate to limit themselves. Indeed, in addition to this, Palfi is a thin interpreter of Hungarian history and ascetic, which easilyabandoning a large form to refresh the directorial instrumentation or simply not idle. He is not averse to abandoning himself: his previous film "The final installation - ladies and gentlemen!" composed of someone else's material; Palfi glued the scattered frames of five hundred films into a single, universal and final love story.

“Free fall”-in a sense, the return of Palfi to the territory of “taxidermia” and the reasoning that there is life: is there a place of history as a path or our destiny is an eternal circle of repetitions. From global generalizations, Palfi runs into a meager seven -story building on the edge of Budapest. From the utopia of human unity within the framework of cinema-to the confused tea bags, broken elevator bought in the 70s of the furniture wall, noting the total impossibility of human communication. “Free fall” is a collage of small -sized apartments of a multi -storey building, an eternal metaphor for fragmented human insignificance. The plot of the picture is almost Kharmovsky: the old woman exhausted by the spray spouse comes out with a bag-alert from the apartment, but for some reason it does not go down, but upstairs. He rises to the roof and, standing on the edge for a couple of seconds, falls face in the asphalt, but does not die. He gets up, shakes himself, returns home. However, for a short while: having made sure of the incorrigibility of the spouse, after a few minutes she dresses to get up again. Each floor of its ascent is a separate story: an invisible bull lives in one apartment, levitation reigns in the other, in the third - polyamia, in the fourth hermophobes there were a cockroach, in the fifth - an abortion, but not simple, naked in the sixth! Strange visions do not promise an old woman of peace; Who knows how many times it will fall, rise and fall again.

It would be time to call such a movie onyeric and after that it is already starting an interpretation: what symbolizes here. Say, an old woman with string bags - is it not a director himself, who rises with each of his film to the last floor and solemnly thumping into the abyss of unjustified expectations, and then repeating his mournful path upstairs? But it is strong and seduced not to decipher anything at all, but to surrender to the will of personnel, replacing each other with a pensioner dimension. Here, a boiled sausage falls on bread with butter, grandfather pulls the uniform of Goneda flowers (former military?), Lays medicines in the dim light of a table lamp, hides the navigation into the wardrobe, the kettle almost boiled. There is hardly someone in today's cinema besides Palfi, who would have been available to these Sorokinsky descriptions, empty and at the same time hypnotizing (a film about Lenin should be entrusted to him). He could also make the film “Love”, but his old woman leaves the old man, rises to the last floor and flies down.

Palfi turns his seven -story building into a genre catalog: solid, Romanian dressing, arthouse with the old people replaces the Woodallen joke with a beautiful naked lady, then there is a cold sterile horror, and behind him - a seat about the wife of two husbands (naturally, with a ordered laughter). The old woman crawls and crawls upstairs, not noticing what was happening outside the doors. A pure grotesque, of course, is not news for Hungary. If you look for “free fall” of some cultural analogies, then “Tales-Mynings” of the great Hungarian writer and playwright Iztan Erken, poured by sarcasm and melancholy, inevitably come to my head; Their author was preceded by text, which could well include in the credits and gender Palfi. I will give it completely:

“These stories, despite their brevity, are finished works of art. Their advantage is that they do not require a lot of time from you, do not require long -term attention for weeks or months. While the software egg is brewed while the desired phone number (which is busy) is dialed, you can read the little story. Poor well -being, shaken nerves are also not a hindrance. These stories can be read while sitting and standing, in the rain and wind, in a bit stuffed by a bus. And most of them you will not read even without pleasure even on the go. It is recommended to pay attention to the headlines. The author sought to be brief, therefore, he could not give the stories nothing of meaningless names. Before sitting on the tram, we always look at what number. For these stories, the name is an equally important detail. This, of course, does not mean that it is enough to read only the headline. First, the heading, then the text is the only correct way to use. Attention! If you do not understand anything, re-read an unclear story. If you do not understand again, then the root of evil is in the story itself. There are no stupid people, there are unsuccessful stories! "

I hope all the audience will understand the Palfi, even if they do not have the opportunity to review his film.