“Since my first film, Girl, I have attempted in a very deliberate and stubborn way to portray women capable of making independent decisions.... I did it when (feminism) was not yet fashionable.... Everywhere, the ideal woman is the tender, passive, adaptive person who is submissive. Since the family is the basic form of life, every young girl between twenty and thirty has the ambition to find a husband.... In Adoption, Kata, the heroine, is looking for another solution: instead of forcing the man who already has a family to support her, she adopts a child.” (Márta Mészáros)
“Mészáros depicts the sobriety of solitude. Adoption is an attractive, simple story, avoiding romantic and sentimental elements... (It) is very much a woman's film--this quality provides an introspective style with precise observations, and an astonishingly dry, lyrical mood. Adoption won the Grand Prize at the 1975 Berlin Film Festival.” (Yvette Biro)