The Films of Márta Mészáros
The Films of Márta Mészáros
June 3–July 20, 2022
“Since my first film I have attempted in a very deliberate and stubborn way to portray women capable of making independent decisions,” wrote acclaimed Hungarian filmmaker Márta Mészáros, who at age ninety is the subject of this major retrospective featuring new digital restorations of her films.
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The Girl
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The Heiresses
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Riddance
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Don’t Cry, Pretty Girls!
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Diary for My Lovers
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Films - Past
Films - Past
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Past Films
The Girl
Márta Mészáros
Hungary, 1968Friday, June 3 7 PMView DetailsForget James Dean; Mészáros’s debut introduces viewers to a young female rebel without a cause, a textile factory worker searching for her past and for pleasure in her present.
Binding Sentiments
Márta Mészáros
Hungary, 1969Sunday, June 5 7 PMView DetailsA recently widowed woman finds herself held hostage by her son and his girlfriend in this icy, Bergman-esque portrait of the maternal ties that turn to chains.
Don’t Cry, Pretty Girls!
Márta Mészáros
Hungary, 1970Friday, June 10 7 PMView DetailsIron Curtain industrial realism merges with A Hard Day’s Night fancy in this weightless caper through the Hungarian “New Beat” underground, as downtrodden factory kids escape in rock and roll.
Riddance
Márta Mészáros
Hungary, 1973Wednesday, June 15 7 PMView DetailsA lower-class textile mill girl falls for a bourgeoise student in Mészáros’s biting examination of unequal social constructs—and the final freedom of smashing plates.
Adoption
Márta Mészáros
Hungary, 1975Saturday, June 18 7 PMView DetailsMészáros brought her documentary background to bear in this masterful parable about female self-actualization in 1970s Hungary, the winner of the Golden Bear at the 1975 Berlin Film Festival.
Nine Months
Márta Mészáros
Hungary, 1976Friday, June 24 7 PMView DetailsA newly arrived factory worker and her foreman strike up a doomed relationship in Mészáros’s look at love—or the impossibility thereof—in a society with little room for affection.
The Two of Them
Márta Mészáros
Hungary, 1977Wednesday, June 29 7 PMView DetailsFrench star Marina Vlady (Two or Three Things I Know About Her) provides the calm to Lili Monori’s rage in this astonishing look at two women at different stages of their lives.
The Heiresses
Márta Mészáros
Hungary, France, 1980Wednesday, July 6 7 PMView DetailsIn 1936 Budapest, with Nazism on the rise, the wealthy but sterile wife of a military officer asks her young Jewish friend (Isabelle Huppert) to bear her husband’s child.
Diary for My Children
Márta Mészáros
Hungary, 1984Saturday, July 9 7 PMView DetailsMészáros folds national history, a coming-of-age tale, and the power of cinephilia into this look at a young orphan seeking truth amidst the lies, conspiracies, and shadows of postwar Hungary.
Diary for My Lovers
Márta Mészáros
Hungary, 1987Friday, July 15 7 PMView DetailsMészáros’s second Diary installment follows teenage Juli, the director’s alter ego, as she leaves Hungary to become a filmmaker in Moscow and discovers that her vision of “reality” is different than Russia’s.
Diary for My Father and Mother
Márta Mészáros
Hungary, 1990Wednesday, July 20 7 PMView DetailsThe heartrending final installment of Mészáros’s semi-autobiographical Diary trilogy continues the journey of Juli, a young orphan, through the tumult of postwar Hungary.