Powerful cinematic narrative: Offers a vivid account of cinema's impact on personal and collective memory
eloquent literary prose: Delivers rich, evocative descriptions and reflections
Beautiful Caroline Schmidt translation: Ensures accessibility and literary quality
Focus on cultural and human experience: Explores the shared rituals of film watching
Summarized by Shop
On a journey through the south-east of Hungary some years back, Esther Kinsky finds herself in a small town in the Alföld, the Great Hungarian Plain. Resignation and a glorification of the past are the most dominant threads in the inhabitants’ conversations. Like many other things, the cinema, ‘mozi’ in Hungarian, has long since closed. E
