February 18th-International Film Appreciation (Aurora Borealis)

Screening Time: 19:00, 18th Feb, 2019

Venue: D-hall of MUST

FREE ENTRANCE!

Name：Aurora Borealis

104 min| Drama |2017|Hungary| Hungarian

Director: Márta Mészáros

Writers: Márta Mészáros, Jancsó Zoltán, Pataki Éva

Editetor: Annamária Szántó

Stars: Mari Törőcsik, Franciska Törőcsik, Ildikó Tóth, József Wunderlich, Eva Prosek, Leslaw Zurek, Jákob Ladányi, Hary Prinz, Ewa Telega, Antonio de la Torre

Storyline

Aurora Borealis is a family story with plentiful of twists taking place on two separate timelines. It analyses the relationship between a mother and a daughter in great depths. Mária (Mari Törőcsik), the elderly mother of Olga (Ildikó Tóth), the successful attorney living in Vienna, unexpectedly falls into a coma. While Mária is hovering between life and death, Olga comes across a deliberately withheld secret. The increasingly passionate investigation takes her back to the war-torn Europe of the 50s; where, at the end of her journey she discovers herself: a woman she never knew before. The film discusses the dramatic situations originating from identity crises with feminine sensitivity in unusual situations, the never-healing wounds caused by the wars of the shattered Europe, passing, and the liberating powers coming from unveiling lies and suppressions.

Information of the film director --MÁRTA MÉSZÁROS

(Born in 1931 in Budapest)

Main festivals & awards

1975 – Adoption – Berlinale Competition – GOLDEN BEAR

1977 – Nine Months - Cannes / Quinzaine des réalisateurs – FIPRESCI PRIZE

1980 – The Heiresses - Cannes Official Selection Competition

1984 – Diary for my Children – Cannes Official Selection Competition – SPECIAL “GRAND PRIX” OF THE JURY

Balázs Béla Award (1977), Merited Artist of Hungary Award (1985), National Trade Union Council's Award (1989, Kossuth Prize (1990), Imre Nagy Memorial Plaque (1995), Order of Merit of the Hungarian Republic: Officer's Cross (1996), Master of the Hungarian Motion Picture (2003)

“Márta Mészáros, who not only made the first Hungarian feature directed by a woman (1968’s The Girl), and continued to defy doubters and a climate of heavy censorship to become a defining voice of her nation’s cinema.”

Awards:

AUDIENCE AWARD for BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM 53rd CHICAGO IFF

Supported by：

Consulate General of Hungary in Hong Kong