The Two of Them

Márta Mészáros
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The Films of Márta Mészáros

January 21 - 26, 2022

Two women, each at a critical crossroads in life and love, find refuge in their friendship with one another in this multilayered look at female solidarity.

DIRECTOR
Márta Mészáros
YEAR
1977
COUNTRY
Hungary / France
RUNTIME
98 minutes
LANGUAGE
Hungarian with English subtitles
START DATE
January 23, 2022

Two women, each at a critical crossroads in life and love, find refuge in their friendship with one another in this multilayered look at female solidarity. Mari (Marina Vlady), a middle-aged director of a hostel for working women, grapples with her insecurities about aging and her husband’s impending departure to Mongolia; Juli (Lili Monori), an unruly young factory employee raising a daughter (Zsuzsa Czinkóczi, future star of Mészáros’s Diary trilogy), struggles to escape from her tumultuous relationship with her alcoholic husband (Jan Nowicki). With characteristic sensitivity, Mészáros traces the protective yet complex bond that forms between the two, each at a different stage of life but dealing with the same questions of freedom and autonomy as they chart their rocky paths towards independence. An NYFF15 selection. A Janus Films release. New 4K digital restoration undertaken by The Hungarian National Film Fund and approved by director Márta Mészáros.

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