Reżyseria:
Barnabás TóthZdjęcia:
Gábor MarosiMuzyka:
László PirisiObsada:
Károly Hajduk, Abigél Szőke, Mari Nagy, Barnabás Horkay, Katalin Simkó, Andor Lukáts, Judit Marosvölgyi, Zsolt Zayzon, Adél Jordán, Lujza Emma Tóth (więcej)Opisy(1)
In Budapest, in the aftermath of the Holocaust, Klara (Abigél Szőke), a sharp-tongued girl making a rocky transition to puberty, is treated by Aladár (Károly Hajduk), a gentle, decent middle-aged doctor. She lashes out in furious denial over the loss of her parents; he is paralyzed in silent grief over the deaths of his wife and child. Together, they struggle to carve out a space between sexual impropriety and redemption. But a new totalitarian threat has started to take shape around them, as the Soviets begin asserting their force. Director Barnabás Tóth, who cowrote the script with Klára Muhi, crafts a quiet but deeply affecting and exquisite story of survival, achieving the impossible: a balance between heartbreaking grief and the hope of a new beginning. Szőke, just 17 at the time of filming, provides a mesmerizing portrait of a girl ascending to womanhood under a veil of rage and sadness. (Telluride Film Festival)
(więcej)Recenzje (1)
The motif of Lolita in platonic form, set in a period when people who lost their families in the Holocaust were enduring the scars of World War II and, at the same time, were being faced with the oppression of rising communism. Those Who Remained is a tender story about an orphaned adolescent girl who finds support and fatherly love in an introverted middle-aged man. It’s also about him, to whom she gives a spark of life while pulling him out of his sad loneliness. The film stands on the great performances of the two actors and the positive aura of their characters’ mutually healing relationship. It also keeps the viewer curious about where that relationship will lead them, with their fears due to suspicious onlookers and the evil-natured regime formed by the society around them. Those Who Remained is a film with soul. [3Kino Fest]
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