1969 · hungarian · feminist · drama
Binding Sentiments
Directed by Márta Mészáros1h 21m1969
Edit, who became the wife of a politician out of a simple peasant girl, suddenly becomes a widow as a result of an accident. She never loved her husband. She lives a wealthy and lonely life amidst false friends, facing one of the last alternatives of her life, i.e. having to face her past in the hope of an independent new beginning.
Our read: Binding Sentiments (1969) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded hungarian · feminist · drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured hungarian / feminist, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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