Variety Critics’ Choice: Europe Now! 2003 / A boldogság színe / Hungary 2003
Magical-realist quilt of various types looking for love or fulfillment in
modern-day Budapest.
A magical-realist criss-crosser, set in contempo Budapest and beguilingly shot in vibrant, Almodovarian hues, The Colour of Happiness takes Hungarian cinema out of its grungy, inward-looking ghetto and into the mainstream of accessible European filmmaking. Lively quilt of various types looking for love or fulfillment firmly establishes 41-year-old writer-director Jozsef Pacskovszky after a decade of promising work. The marriage of Ditta (Ann Györgyi), plain-Jane wife of Frenchman Laurent (Erik Desfosses), has hit the sexual shallows; but as Ditta sends him off to work, it starts snowing outside - unheard of in May - and there´s a hint of something special in the air. Almost immediately the script starts to introduce and set up connections among a swath of other characters.
Derek Elley
86 min / Color, 35 mm
Director József Pacskovszky
/ Screenplay József Pacskovszky
/ Dir. of Photography Francisco Gozon
/ Music Ando Drom, Sonoton
/ Editor Gabriella Koncz
/ Producer Jenö Haberman
/ Production Filmart
/ Cast Anny Györgyi, Ildiko Bacsa, Margit Foldessy, Erik Desfosses, Zoltán Rátóti, Terez Rudolf, Livia Habermann, Eva Vari, Artúr Kálid, Otto Viczian, Todd Williams
/ Contact National Film Institute Hungary, Mokép Co. / Hungarofilm Division
National Film Institute Hungary
Róna utca 174., 1145, Budapest
Hungary
Phone: +36 30 4414465, +36 146 113 20
Mokép Co. / Hungarofilm Division
Bajcsy-Zsilinszky út 7., H-1065, Budapest
Hungary
Phone: +36 1 267 3026
Fax: +36 1 267 3140
E-mail: [email protected]
József Pacskovszky
Kinga Gajdos
Film Institution Rep.
Jenő Hábermann
Producer
Éva Bánhidi
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