One Hungarian film and one French film will be shown at the French Institute each week between May 15 and June 13.
First in the series will be the French director René Clément's Palm d'Or winning The Damned and the last film will be Michael Haneke's The Piano Teacher, for which Isabelle Huppert received the Best Actress award and Benoît Magimel the Best Actor award in 2001. Another highlight of the series will be a screening of Cyrano de Bergerac, for which Gerard Depardieu won the Best Actor award in 1990.
Directors to be featured in the French selection include François Truffaut, Maurice Pialat, Costa Gavras and Claude Chabrol.
The Hungarian directors whose feature films will be included in the programme are Márton Keleti, Zoltán Fábri, Ferenc Kósa, István Gaál, István Szabó, Ágnes Kocsis and Nimród Antal.
The French Institute of Budapest and the Cannes Film Festival are both celebrating their 60th anniversaries this year. Since 1947, 132 Hungarian films have been shown at the Cannes Film Festival and 40 of these have received awards. Five Hungarian shorts have won the Palm d'Or: János Vadász's Overture, Marcell Jankovics's Fight, Béla Vajda's Moto Perpetuo, Marcell Iványi's Wind and Péter Mészáros's After the Rain. All of these films will be screened before the features on the programme at the French Institute.
Source: port.hu
