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Fehérlófia (1981)
Psychedelic trip
Marcell Jankovics claimed he never used drugs but the entire movie is exactly like a psychedelic LSD trip. The story is full of symbols, but these somehow come from the common heritage and can be understood by instinct. Just like a dream. It is not a piece of art what can be digested easily but those who has sense of psychedelism will love and never forget this movie. I don't want to advise directly how a person can enhance further the effect of the movie but it is not hard to find out what I mean.
Szép lányok, ne sírjatok! (1970)
Fantastic music, beautiful girls, naive innocent era
Well, the story is simple though flows easily. This film is of mainly about the characters, the music and the era. Although the music is quite similar but these people differ from those who act similar roles in mainstream western flower power movies. Here the characters are simple people without world changing ideas. They are just enjoying their youth what are focused on beat music. In the other hand they are simple naive and innocent people and act instinctive. The music are fantastic. Quite enjoyable even without understanding the lyric and completely take us to the era. A little background information is that originally this film was intended to be about the band "Illés". But they gave an interview in London what the politicians disliked in Hungary so the director had to change the story and musicians. Although the band did not appear but four of their songs did. The movie's best moments are when the band called Kex is playing. They are those guys who are taking photos from stage of the public. This movie is the only memory of this very popular band of that age. Their surrealistic lyric was quite outstanding in those years. The dialogs are poor but this is intended. It was a kind of expression of the minimalism what was a popular trend among the era's directors especially Miklós Jancsó.