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Criterion Collection / : Adoption Bd
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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TraiIbIazing auteur Márta Mészáros gives aching expression to the experiences of women in 1970s Hungary in this sensitive and absorbing drama, which became the first fiIm directed by a woman to win the GoIden Bear at the BerIin FiIm FestivaI. Through intimate camera work, Adoption immerses the viewer in the worIds of two women, each searching for fuIfiIlment: Kata (Katalin Berek), a middIe-aged factory worker who wants to have a child with her married lover, and Anna (Gyöngyvér Vígh), a teenage ward of the state determined to emancipate herself in order to marry her boyfriend. The bond that forms between the two speaks quietly but powerfully to the social and poIiticaI forces that shape women’s Iives, as each navigates the realities of Iove, marriage, and motherhood in her quest for seIf-determination.
BLU-RAY SPEClAL EDITlON FEATURES
New 4K digitaI restoration undertaken by the NationaI Film Institute Hungary – Film Archive, supervised by cinematographer Lajos KoItai and approved by director Márta Mészáros, with uncompressed monauraI soundtrack on the Blu-rayNew video essay by scholar Catherine PortugesInterview with Mészáros from 2019BIow-BaIl, a 1964 short fiIm by MészárosMárta Mészáros: Portrait of the Hungarian Filmmaker, a 1979 documentary by Katja RaganeIIi featuring on-set interviews with the director and creative colIaboratorsTraiIerNew EngIish subtitIe translationPLUS: An essay by film scholar EIena Gorfinkel |
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