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Cat's Play

Cat's Play

4,5 /10 (11 Votes)
1974 HU 115 min

Overview

Karoly Makk's heartbreaking story of two unmarried sisters who cast wistful glances back at their lives, but still believe in hope and love, earned an Academy Award Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film in 1974. In this follow-up to the director's internationally acclaimed Love, Makk once again exhibits his extraordinary skills at drawing emotionally compelling performances from his talented female leads. Makk's film opposes the bleakness of the outside world with passion, love, and loyalty.

Release date

10/05/1974

Votes

11

Popularity

0.6

Genres

Status

Released

Original title

Macskajáték

Language

HU

Runtime

115 min

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Aqueronte72

Aqueronte72

2022-04-16

> On the one hand, the indestructible murmur, the purest and most refined literature made images of Makk's whisper, on the other, the fearsome imponderable, and idyllic staging. When the right time comes, the story of Giza and her sister Erzsi Skalla, this work, will be for those who are over 50 years old, not necessarily old or who feel that way, their favorite work and that of many like them, due to the circumspection merciless, by the spaces of silence, ("when we remain silent we become unpleasant, when we speak we become ridiculous", said one of my favorite European authors Herta Muller, i…

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