All screenings @ Zeidler Hall in the Citadel Theatre, 9828 - 101A Ave
Hungarian with English subtitles
The movie opens at the time of the Hungarian uprising of 1956, when a family is separated forever. The husband has a clandestine escape route prepared, via the Red Cross, to Vienna, but his wife decides to stay in Budapest, keeping the two kids. This prologue is fraught with significance, shot in semi-documentary sepia tone and underlined with momentous music. Time Stands Still, which takes its title from a Hungarian popular song, is filled with images that are individually stunning: a man and woman talk in shadowy blue profile while water drips from the brim of the man's hat and pots boil on the stove between them. A boy and his teacher embrace in a bathroom with the camera looking down from behind the twisting blades of a fan. Time won Best Foreign Language Film at the 1982 New York Film Critics Circle Awards.
Hungary: 50 Years After 1956
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Hungarian Uprising in 1956, a watershed year in that Central European nation's modern history, the Canadian Film Institute in Ottawa assembled this package of four films which deal, in various cinematic styles, with the tumultuous events of October 1956. This series is presented in collaboration with Embassy of the Republic of Hungary (Ottawa) and Magyar Filmunio (Budapest). Special thanks to the National Arts Centre (Ottawa).
- Nov 24 (2006) @ 7pm
- Nov 27 (2006) @ 9:15pm