The Story of My Wife
Set in the 1920s, a middle-aged Dutch seaman bets his cynical business partner that he will marry the first woman who enters the café they are sitting in. Captain Jakob Störr (played by the dashing Gijs Naber) is looking for happiness, so in walks the mysterious and stylish Lizzy (French superstar Léa Seydoux's another amazing performance), who is amused by the idea of a sudden marriage. Their lush affair told in seven chapters, exploring different stages of a cat and mouse romantic relationship.
The freighter captain is not comfortable when out in society with the lively Lizzy. Back on the ship he is stark and silent, but he has a lot of time to think. He convinces himself that his wife, who lives alone in an apartment in Paris, is having an affair with her friend, the young writer Dedin (Louis Garrel). Störr and Lizzy soon leave frivolous Paris and move to the colder Hamburg, where they slowly drift apart. The captain’s own fears and doubts seem to become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Then comes a surprising turn of events, flipping their lives again.
Ildikó Enyedi’s grandiose ninth feature -her first in English- is an adaptation of the Hungarian poet Milán Füst’s novel of the same title – and loosely based on the legend of the cursed Flying Dutchman.
Zoltan Huber
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Ildikó Enyedi (snd 1955) alustas karjääri kontseptuaalse ja meediakunstnikuna. Ta kuulus kunstnike rühmitusse Indigo ja Balázs Béla stuudiosse, mis oli ainuke sõltumatu Ida Euroopa filmistuudio enne 1989. aastat. Sealt algas ka Enyedi pikk karjäär filmirežissööri ja -stsenaristina. Tema esimene lavastus „Minu 20. sajand“ võitis Cannesis parima debüüdi auhinna (Camera d’Or) ja see valiti kõigi aegade 12 parima Ungari filmide hulka, samuti üheks parimaks aasta filmiks New York Timesi poolt. Tema järgmised filmid „Magic Hunter“, „Simon Magus“ ja „Tamas and Juli“ osalesid kõik mitmel rahvusvahelisel festivalil, sh Veneetsias, Locarnos ja Belfortis. 2017. aastal valminud film „Ihust ja hingest“ võitis parima filmi Kuldkaru auhinna Berliinis ja nomineeriti parima võõrkeelse filmi Oscarile. Tänavu Cannesis võistelnud „Minu abikaasa lugu“ on Enyedi kaheksas täispikk film.
Valik: Vakond (Mole, 1987), Az én XX. századom (My Twentieth Century, 1989, PÖFF 2021), Simon mágus (Simon, the Magician, 1999), Teströl és lélekröl (On Body and Soul, 2017), A feleségem története (The Story of My Wife, 2020)
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