Main Trends in the Contemporary Hungarian Cinema: Surrealistic Stories, History That Is No Longer Martyrology, Genre Cinema Is Enjoying a Renaissance
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.
Keywords:
Hungarian cinema, genre cinema, contemporary cinemaReferences
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Grzegorz Bubakkwartalnik.filmowy@ispan.pl
Jagiellonian University Poland
Dr hab., kierownik i adiunkt w Zakładzie Filologii Węgierskiej Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, absolwent hungarystyki i filmoznawstwa tamże; zajmuje się historią kinematografii węgierskiej oraz historią Węgier w XX w., ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem roli kultury. Opublikował m.in. monografię Twórczość filmowa Istvana Szabó (2003) oraz Od eksperymentu do fabuły. Twórczość filmowa Petera Timara (2013). Ma na swoim koncie również publikacje w węgierskich i włoskich czasopismach naukowych.
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