Ildiko Enyedi plays with electricity in her charming first feature which won the Camera D'Or at this year's Cannes Film Festival. Set at the turn of the century-when the advent of the telegraph and the cinema alike foretold the coming of the global village-My 20th Century re-creates the mood of the blossoming media using standard aspect ratio, black-and-white cinematography and iris editing. The film opens with New York City, 1880, and Thomas Alva Edison (Peter Andorai) staging a brilliant display of electricity. Cut to far-off Budapest, where twin girls are born, quickly to become orphans of the storm and separated. On New Year's Eve, 1899, both find themselves on the Orient Express-Dora, a poseur, luxuriating in first class, and Lili, an anarchist, finding room in third class for herself and her bomb. (Both are portrayed by the delightful actress Dorotha Segda.) Unbeknownst to each other, both are involved with the same man-the mysterious, elegant Z (Oleg Jankowszki). Enyedi uses the endless possibilities for mistaken identity inherent in this tale for an engaging fantasy, replete with mystic visions, songs, and locations as varied as the jungles of Burma and the outlands of Siberia. My 20th Century celebrates as it pokes fun at the whole idea of progress and the global village; the two ends of a fast-moving train can never meet.