Hungary
EASTERN SUGAR
(SZEZON)
2004, Ferenc Török, Hungary, 89 min.
With Zsolt Nagy, Judit Rezes
Late-night booty calls from a senator’s wife no less, number among the few perks rustled up on the side by three adventurous twenty-something guys who set out for idyllic summer jobs and find a soul-sapping grind as waiters in a swanky lakeside resort. Director Török’s bittersweet comedy, in which the three discover life in a bossman’s world, deftly lays out the angst of working class dudes with boys-gone-wild dreams. In Hungarian with English subtitles. 35mm print courtesy of Bunyik Entertainment and Magyar Filmunió. (BS)
Sunday, March 4, 5:00 pm
Tuesday, March 6, 6:00 pm
HUNTING FOR ENGLISHMEN
(VADÁSZAT ANGOLOKRA)
2006, Bertalan Bagó, Hungary, 86 min.
With Sándor Badár, Ilona Bencze
A love triangle is set against the background of a bucolic country enclave of aristocrats in 1830s Hungary as the Russian tsar plots an incursion. The handsome English engineer Blackwall arrives to build a railroad for Count Falussy, whose beautiful orphan ward is the would-be fiancée of a neighboring and much older nobleman. Intrigues, romantic and political, are laid bare when the boar hunt takes a dangerous turn. In Hungarian with English subtitles. 35mm print courtesy of Bunyik Entertainment and Magyar Filmunió. (BS)