1976 · hungarian · drama · relationship
When Joseph Returns
Directed by Zsolt Kézdi-Kovács1h 29m1976
An unsentimental Hungarian film about the edgy relationship between a middle-aged woman and her young, restless daughter-in-law when the son-husband goes to sea for six months.
Our read: When Joseph Returns (1976) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded hungarian · drama · relationship entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, measured, measured hungarian / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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