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Passing Fancy

1983 · 94 min

A slow, talky immersion into café society and tangled affairs, elegant but emotionally distant.

Directed by
Gyula Maár
Genres
Drama
Starring
Jiří Menzel, Cecília Esztergályos, Jiří Adamíra
Overview
The main character of the story which takes place in the twenties in Budapest is the poet Dr. Rácz György, who returns after ten years of absence. In a café he meets his former friend Lajos, who has just broken up with his lover, Márta, because of the wife of professor Büchler. The transiently formed, rootless Rácz gets entangled into the sophisticated, complicated love affairs of bored or tired ladies.

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Directed by
Gyula Maár
Genres
Drama
Starring
Jiří Menzel, Cecília Esztergályos, Jiří Adamíra
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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • romanticstrength 2 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • love
  • isolation
  • identity
  • betrayal
  • class
Places
  • big city
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour3
Realism8
Romance6
Tension3
Darkness5
Complexity7
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Gyula Maár
Written by
Tibor Déry, Gyula Maár
Starring
Jiří Menzel, Cecília Esztergályos, Jiří Adamíra, Hana Maciuchová, Miklós Tolnai
Runtime
94 min
Languages
Hungarian

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