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  • 1990
  • Aries Films
  • 1 h 42 m
  • 1990
  • Aries Films
  • 1 h 42 m

Summary On the eve of the 20th century, two twin girls, Lili the anarchist and Dóra a luxurious woman of loose morals, along with Mr. Z. who loves them as an entity, all reach the Hungarian border at the same time on board the Orient Express. Their story, rushing under the spell of Edison’s inventions, is a special ‘research of happiness’, recla...

Directed By: Ildikó Enyedi

Written By: Ildikó Enyedi

  • 1990
  • Aries Films
  • 1 h 42 m
  • 1990
  • Aries Films
  • 1 h 42 m

My Twentieth Century

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Summary On the eve of the 20th century, two twin girls, Lili the anarchist and Dóra a luxurious woman of loose morals, along with Mr. Z. who loves them as an entity, all reach the Hungarian border at the same time on board the Orient Express. Their story, rushing under the spell of Edison’s inventions, is a special ‘research of happiness’, recla...

Directed By: Ildikó Enyedi

Written By: Ildikó Enyedi

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Universal Acclaim Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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Universal Acclaim Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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80% Positive
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20% Mixed
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My 20th Century, a new Hungarian film written and directed by Ildiko Enyedi, is a number of wondrous things. It's a bracing combination of wit, invention, common sense and lunacy. It's a gravely comic meditation on civilization at the turn of this century. It's also about light and shadow and electricity, Thomas Alva Edison, movies and what it's like to be Hungarian in a world where no one is quite sure where Hungary is.
By Vincent Canby FULL REVIEW
80
My Twentieth Century (Times-rated Mature for sex, complex style and themes) remains on the whole buoyant and beguiling--and is surely among the most distinctive films to arrive this year.
By Kevin Thomas FULL REVIEW
80
Quite unintentionally, Ildiko Enyedi's My Twentieth Century demonstrates the importance of a good story in a film. The movie doesn't really have one, but this shortcoming, which keeps the Hungarian film unmistakably shy of greatness, is its only fault.
By Desson Thomson FULL REVIEW
80
An elegant midsummer, end-century night’s dream of a film, with an elusive, gossamer lightness.
By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW
60
My 20th Century is like a dream, without a unifying logic -- ravishing fragments without coherence or meaning. Immersed somewhere in all this are Enyedi's meditations on the true nature of women, the shortcomings of 20th-century progress, and the connections between art and science. Yet though her own inventiveness and witty command of the medium are invigorating, her thinking is so scrambled that her originality is undermined. The movie is overintellectualized and yet not fully thought out.
By Hal Hinson FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Budapest Stúdió Vállalat, Freihändler Filmproduktion GmbH, Magyar Filmgyártó Vállalat, Hamburger Filmbüro, Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industrias Cinematográficos (ICAIC), Helikon Film
Release Date Nov 9, 1990
Duration 1 h 42 m
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Tagline An enchantingly sensual tale.
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Awards

Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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