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literature, cinema, fine arts
Midnight Rehearsal
EXPOSED - The many meanings of the erotic in Hungarian cinema
22 December 2014, Monday
6 pm - 8:30 pm
Auditorium
Produced by Müpa Budapest
Müpacinema

Cast:

Sándor Szakácsi, Dorottya Udvaros, György Linka, Zsuzsa Töreky, Enikő Eszenyi, Tamás Végvári

Creators:

script Miklós Szurdi, Péter Endre Várkonyi, István Verebes
cinematographer András Szalai
editor Hajnal Sellő
music Zsolt Döme
set design Tamás Vayer
costume design Györgyi Szakács
director Miklós Szurdi

Featuring:

host András Réz

Night Rehearsal (1982) - Dialóg Stúdió, color, 97 perc

The Autumn 2014 selection of Müpamozi, the digital screening series from the Palace of Arts and the Hungarian National Digital Archives and Film Institute, poses the question of how desire, eroticism and nudity are shown in Hungarian film history. Is it truly Eros who is pulling the strings here? When are women shown undressed, and when are men? Do we see any joie de vivre in the erotic segments of these films? How is the medium of film able to treat words of erotic prose? What is erotic: total nudity, when only the shadow appears on the wall, or a silk slip slowly being pulled up over a garter belt? What is our culture of amorousness, and how does it interrelate with the depictions of reality that appear in film? What did Hungarian films use nudity for apart from erotic moments? Could love films be made today? András Réz's film club seeks the answers to these questions and more.

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A provincial theatre wishes to put on a drama by an opposition writer entitled The Jacobins. The ministry prohibits the performance, but the terminally ill writer is unaware of this and still intends to watch the dress rehearsal. With enormous effort, the director puts together a fake dress rehearsal one night, which has a cathartic effect on the otherwise indifferent professional company. In restrained and naturalistic mini-analyses, Szurdi and his cast portray the overheated and manipulative environment of the theatre, and the turbulent personal lives that it contains. Dorottya Udvaros (who plays the director's lover) again has an inclination to undress in this film, this time from the waist downwards. At the rehearsal, the Sándor Szakácsi's director tears off the blouse of another actress portraying a non-talent, resulting in mayhem.

Presented by: Palace of Arts, MaNDA

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