Main Trends In the Contemporary Hungarian Cinema. Surrealistic Stories, History That Is No Longer Martyrology, Genre Cinema Is Enjoying a Renaissance Cover Image

Główne tendencje we współczesnym kinie węgierskim. Surrealistyczne opowieści, historia, która przestaje być martyrologią, kino gatunków przeżywa renesans
Main Trends In the Contemporary Hungarian Cinema. Surrealistic Stories, History That Is No Longer Martyrology, Genre Cinema Is Enjoying a Renaissance

Author(s): Grzegorz Bubak
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Published by: Instytut Sztuki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Hungarian cinema;

Summary/Abstract: Polish cinema viewers still stereotypically consider Hungarian films as hermetic, inaccessible, gloomy, pessimistic in tone, which is further reinforced by the language barrier. Observing, however, the latest achievements of Hungarian cinema, one can note that these stereotypes are becoming less characteristic of Hungarian cinema today. On the one hand, we observe the transgression of the convention, on the other hand, the return to the genre cinema. If we add to this a new healing gaze at the history, we will find that we are looking at a cinema that is engaging, one that can speak about many problems in an unconventional way, and is therefore interesting and inventive. In the context of numerous awards and distinctions it ceases to be a risky proposition that Hungarian cinema is currently experiencing its second golden era.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 101-102
  • Page Range: 131-142
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish