Hottoceame The Age of Commercialism

Steineded How sad is this?

Donald Seymour This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Janis One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

jptimmermans88-262-906166 I saw this film in a French synchronized version(how I "dislike" this!!)But I know now that I must add this one to my DVD-collection!I recognized the acting of Scarlett again as in The Horse Whisperer, and I was happy to see Natassja acting again in a decent movie. But the performance of Raffaella Banragi was absolutely great!!I'm also grateful that I discovered the music of Marta Sebestyen! Question: does anyone know where the black and white pictures came from (the occupation and terror of the Russians-the hangings and Russian soldiers in the streets),or which historical documentary or National Geographicfilm? Would be great if anyone out there would have the answer! Thank you Girls and Boys!!

saumacus One of the opening scenes of this film, where Soviet soldiers harass a young Hungarian woman in a restaurant and shoot her father for an attempt to protect her, is totally false. It has probably been made that way for a benefit of an average American moviegoer, who would easy understand a bar brawl scene, but set in in Eastern Europe few years after the Second World War ended ... One has to understand the restrictions the occupying Soviet Army's solders were under: Were they allowed to go to a restaurant? (No, they wouldn't.) Would they have money to pay even if they were able to go? (Same answer.) Would they have loaded weapons on them to shoot anyone there? (Absolutely not.) The whole episode (spell it c-l-i-c-h-é) belongs to a bad Western movie.

nolava67 I loved this movie, although I found it sad. The little girl who played Suzanne as a child was phenomenal! Her eyes and facial expressions spoke volumes. When she tearfully told her father "I want to go home" it broke my heart. I can certainly understand that the mother wanted her child back, but considering the trauma it caused the child, I wish there had been some easier way to make the transition from well loved little Hungarian country girl to homesick, confused, misunderstood, (albeit brave) American child in L.A. suburbia. It did seem as though the parents and grandmother displayed selfish reasons for uprooting the child, never considering what it would be like from the child's point of view. I couldn't help but think that Zsuzi would have grown up to be a delightful teenager had she been left with her foster parents. She simply did not have the wherewithal to deal with being uprooted and transplanted with no warning, no preparation. No six year old, not even any 16 year old or 40 year old, for that matter, could deal with emotional trauma of this magnitude. I was left wanting to know MUCH MORE about this family ... did they return to visit Hungary? Did they openly keep in touch with the foster parents? How did this emotional upheaval affect Suzanne as an adult? I want a sequel.

dwpollar 1st watched 7/25/2004 - out of 10 (Dir-Eva Gardos): Heartfelt story of Hungarian immigrant family's trek to the U.S without their baby and the trials that came after this to reunite the whole family. This is definitely a story written from a point of view that understands all the feelings that came with this situation. I'm curious whether the writer/director 'Eva Gardos' was either one of the ones involved or was very close to the family. I digress, anyway, this is a well-done portrait of these lives and one of the few films that doesn't have a bias towards the Hungarian way of live as opposed to the American way of life. What seems to be most important is a feeling of closure felt by the child which she reaches at the end of the film. When the parents left Hungary, the child became a well-loved foster child and then was stolen by the real grandmother and sent to America to be a part of her real family. The discovery of the child's real upbringing is most important and this is where the story goes from here. Unique slow-moving feature film with an uplifting final message with well-done portrayals from the main characters but some very bad acting from subordinate players that doesn't deter from the story.