In Vienna, Filmarchiv Austria and the Collegium Hungaricum organised a series of screenings entitled ?Before and After 1956: Tribute to Márta Mészáros?. ?The Unburied Man? (2004), Mészáros?s film about Imre Nagy, the prime minister of Hungary during the revolution, started the programme, which also included ?The Day Has Gone? (1968), ?Nine Months? (1976), ?The Two of Them? (1977) and her series of ?diary? films.
Filmarchiv Austria published an essay on Mészáros written by Gábor Tölgyesi in its journal to coincide with the screenings. In the essay, her works were compared to those of Agnés Varda, Vera Chytilová, and Lina Wertmüller. ?Mészáros has made Hungarian film a site for the discursive illustration of national history, drawing considerable international attention,? Tölgyesi wrote.
In the UK, Mészáros?s films were recently shown at the Barbican Centre in London, Liverpool?s Picturehouse at FACT and at Oxford?s Oriel College. The director was present at all of the screenings, which were organised by the Hungarian Culture Institute in London.
A retrospective of Mészáros?s films was shown at the Torun Film Festival in Poland on October 18?22. Among them was ?Adoption? (1975), which was the first Hungarian film to participate at the Berlin Film Festival, also taking a Golden Bear.
Cinemateket, the Danish Film Institute, showed Mészáros?s ?The Unburied Man? in October. And in September, Mészáros?s ?diary? films were shown in India for the first time.
Source: www.port.hu
