Most of the movie is observant and level-headed, a tip of the hat to ordinary schlubs entangled in vast events, people who would otherwise be background victims in a conventional historical drama.
Glamour
Hungary · 2000
1h 55m
Director Frigyes Gödrös
Starring Károly Eperjes, Eszter Ónodi, Cserna Antal, György Barkó
Genre Drama
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The tumultuous history of Hungary through the twentieth century is viewed through the saga of the Hungarian-Jewish, furniture-manufacturing family, the Vendels. After taking over the once successful, but now failing, family business in the 1930s, the family patriarch's dashing elder son decides that the family needs an infusion of new blood. A matchmaker presents him with a photo of a pretty German nursery school teacher. When the two meet, they instantly fall in love, but because Hungary has an alliance with Germany, and the Third Reich prohibits marriage between Gentiles and Jews, the couple must hide their union. Their marriage ultimately stands as a dark foreshadowing of rougher times to come as troubles ensue with the advent of World War II, when the family, its employees and servants must retreat to the basement, where the shop emerges increasingly as a refuge in a world growing more violent and less tolerant.
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As a snapshot of Hungarian history, Glamour's watchability trumps that of "Sunshine" the droll absurdity of the former leaves a much deeper impression than the latter's bruising moralism.
Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas
An elegant, poetic fable of endurance.
Chicago Reader by Lisa Alspector
Time and space are condensed by means both elegant and crafty, and rarely are any of the characters made to be more--or less--than allegorical.
Major characters drop in and out of sight, WWII begins and ends without much fanfare, and full decades pass in the space of a few cuts.
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