Time Out London compared the Hungarian director Géza Radványi?s film Somewhere in Europe (1947) to William Golding?s novel The Lord of the Flies, and The Guardian said the festival was notable for bringing not only the best new Hungarian films, but allowing the public a look into the country?s cinematic history, said Hungarian Cultural Centre spokeswoman Natália Nagy.
A piece on Hungarian film by Zoltán Gera, a Hungarian footballer who plays for Fulham, was published in Sport and Film. The piece was illustrated with stills from the Attila Dargay?s children?s classic Mattie the Goose Boy.
More than a hundred English primary school pupils saw Mattie the Goose Boy at a screening organised by Film Education on Friday afternoon.
Check the Gate 2010 opened with Tamás Almási?s Puskás Hungary, about Hungary?s most famous footballer. After the screening, the director spoke with Rogan Taylor, the football expert from Liverpool who put together the book Puskas on Puskas with the help of the interpreter and translator Klára Jamrich.
Altogether 14 films will be screened at the festival. Check the Gate will close on Monday with a screening of The Last Report on Anna. The film?s lead, Enikő Eszenyi, will speak after the screening.
