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Bolse vita (1996)
9/10
The key to heaven
18 May 2020
This film deals with "identity" - on multiple planes of convergence - personal, community, and country. The film shows the mushrooming of naïve and poor immigrants from Russia in post-89 Hungary, a bridge to reach the dreamy pastures of West. It also deals beautifully with the themes of alienation, communication (or lack of thereof), and survival. And it has a nocturnal feel to it, placing you in an overnight tavern crowded with young characters of distinct artistic temperaments (idealist, washed-out, free-wheeling, opportunists, ready-to-explode, etc), all seeking the key to heaven in their own way, all the while boozing, playing saxophones, fornicating, and trying to interpret each others' foreign tongue with the lens of their agenda.
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