February 9, 2008

4:30 pm

Freshly graduated from college, Jancsi and his friends eagerly anticipate the launch of their careers and their new role in the grown-up world. Soon confronted, however, with bureaucracy, disillusionment, and the self-centered priorities of adult life, Jancsi steadily sees his youthful illusions disintegrate. An explicit ode to the French New Wave, this early film already explores a number of highly personal themes that mark Szabó’s subsequent work. The Age of Daydreaming was the director’s first feature and won the Silver Sail Award at the Locarno Film Festival in 1965 where it was first shown to an international audience. (István Szabó, 1964, 35mm, Hungarian with subtitles, 93 minutes) The director’s early short Koncert precedes the feature.

free as always

http://www.nga.gov/programs/film/istvan_szabo.shtm

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