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i am not Your Friend (Nem vagyok a barátod) irène
HUNGARY
Shot in just twenty days and completely improvised by Hungarian direc-
FRANCE
At age 78, French filmmaker Alain Cavalier (Thérèse) remains absorbed
Director: György Pálfi tor György Pálfi, his writers, his director of photography, and his cast of Director: Alain Cavalier by the 1972 death of his wife, actress Irène Tunc, in a car accident. In this
Producers: Péter Miskolczi, nonprofessional actors, this unusual drama delves into the dark side of Producer: Michel Seydoux
cinematic enactment of relentless obsession, he pores over the pages of
Gábor Váradi
human relations in modern Budapest.
2009 / color / 85 min.
his diaries from the years of their marriage and ruminates on the mean-
Screenwriters: György Pálfi, ing of her life – and his. His near-continuous voiceover is freighted with
Zsófia Ruttkay, Attila Réthly
To some extent unbeknownst even to them, a group of friends is grief and longing.
MS: A to Z
Cinematographers: Dávid Lukács,
enmeshed in a web of conflicted and conflicting relationships. Sara
MS: A to Z
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Gergely Pohárnok
aLain CaVaLiEr
loves Mark and is pregnant by him. Though Mark loves Sarah, he also
Alain Cavalier has been making films
“The salt and the menace in these diaries,” the ironically named Cavalier
il
Editor: Réka Lemhényi
loves Sophie. She in turn has a yen for Andras, who loves to spoil his
for six decades He has experienced
explains, has afflicted him all these years, and the only way he can come
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Cast: István Szüle, Gyöngyvér Országh,
wife Rita. But Rita wants only to take care of the dying Natasha, who an ecliptic career, ranging from to terms with his wife’s ghost is through pure first-person filmmaking.
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Corbisier Kim, Kamilla Fátyol,
can think of no one but Jimmy. Jimmy, meanwhile, can think of no one
commercial failure with established
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Admirers of the great French director Agnès Varda’s recent foray
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Zsolt Páll, Csaba Gosztonyi,
but Attal, a brutal thug to whom he is serious debt and who himself –
actors to unexpected successes,
into autobiography, The Beaches of Agnès, will find a parallel in her
Csaba Czene, Kati Farkas, Eszter Tóth documentary and narrative, that
just to round things out – is in love with Sara.
2009 / color / 100 min.
blurred the genre lines, including films
compatriot’s experimental approach to memory. But so will students
without dialogue.
of Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past; it seems there is something
The interactions among these would-be lovers are plagued by innately French about this kind of soul-searching, steeped in history,
codependence, selfishness, exploitation, and other complications that that is nonetheless unnervingly illuminating for the rest of us.
GYÖrGY PÁLFi
Selected Filmography
A native of Budapest, György Pálfi
show no signs of abating. They all play out in a series of vignettes,
Lives (2000)
joined the Hungarian University of
each connected to the next by a particular character and unfolding En route, Cavalier also discusses Tunc’s gynecological issues, shows us
The Encounter (1996)
Drama, Film, and Television in 1995, as a whole to show the many facets of unfulfilled desire. And they’re
Martin and Lea (1979)
his gout-swollen feet, discloses his fascination with great leading lady
directing several short films. His first
preceded by a 13-minute excursion through a kindergarten, where the
Fill ’Er Up with Super (1976)
Sophie Marceau, and even recreates for us his own birth – using a water-
feature, Hukkle, screened at over 100
title of the film occurs in regular playground parlance. The low-budget, Heartbeat (1968) melon, an egg, and a pair of kitchen tongs. Of the film itself, he asks,
international film festivals; his second,
Pillaged (1967)
daring us to debate its avant-garde sensibilities: “Will it implode?”
Taxidermia, was heavily awarded,
cinema verité route I Am Not Your Friend takes from there stands in
Have I the Right to Kill? (1964)
including the grand prize at the 37th
contrast to the surrealist style for which Pálfi is known, having earned
Hungarian Film Week in Budapest. numerous honors for both of his previous festival circuit hits, Hukkle
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