Two young lovers, separated in the wake of the 1956 Budapest uprising, plan to reunite ten years later in France. En route to meet his lover, Jancsi experiences a flood of images a decade old: wartime air raids, fighting in the streets, communist youth rallies, and clandestine trysts with Kata. When they do meet again, the two find that the brilliant colors of France, and the years of separation, finally erase their common bond, which lies in the struggles of Budapest. They are no longer in love.
“In Lovefilm, which can be regarded as a sequel to Father, Szabó presents the greatest dilemma of his own generation. The alternatives were to stay home disillusioned or to leave the country severing all connections with the past.... Szabó does not accuse the girl who left, although he is clearly on the side of the boy who stayed. The fragility of human relationships, the slow disappearance of the loyalty to the common memories, to the common past creates a feeling of irrevocable loss which lingers on. In one of the last scenes the camera moves on to old and young people, parents, brothers and sisters, lovers and friends who are all writing letters to those who left, to those who wanted a final break with the common past.” --Lóránt Czigány