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Son of the White Mare
Why this pick
Jankovics’s mythic, radically stylised animation shares the visionary imagery and archetypal sweep of The Tragedy of Man, though in a more compact folk-tale form.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE2011 2h 40m HUN
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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The Tragedy of Man
AnimationDramaHistoryScience Fiction
CINEHUNCH / THE NEXT FRAME
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A patient, symbolic animated meditation on faith, ruin and human purpose, with similarly monumental imagery and an intentionally enigmatic philosophical mood.
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Why this pick
Its strange, graphic visual world turns a vast social and evolutionary fable into an unsettling contemplation of humanity’s place in history.
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Waking Life
Why this pick
Like The Tragedy of Man, it uses animation to move through big questions of consciousness, mortality and meaning, favouring exploratory ideas over conventional plot momentum.
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Belladonna of Sadness
Why this pick
An audacious, painterly adult animation whose shifting historical imagery and tragic grandeur suit a taste for visually uncompromising allegory.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Adam's and Eve's epic journey throughout history trying to find the meaning of human life. Do we grow in wisdom as centuries pass, or just drift towards an inevitable doom?
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Gyula Balázsi
(voice) (archive footage)
Péter Benkö
(voice) (archive footage)
Ágnes Bertalan
Éva
Péter Blaskó
Catullus / Éva szeretöje / Márki / Nyegle
Ferenc Borbiczky
Második a népböl / Második polgár / Korcsmáros
Gyula Buss
(voice) (archive footage)
Janos Bacskai
Szeretö társa / Második gyáros / Cassius
László Csurka
Krispos / Egy barát / Sans-culotte / Részeg munkás /