”Noah’s Ark”

Thurs 21 May 2009, 8pm
National Cinema Center
Hall No. 1 / Phòng chiếu 1

Vietnamese Dubbing

As part of the ASEM film festival, the Embassy of the Republic of Hungary has the pleasure to invite you to the screening of the Hungarian film “Noah’s Ark”.

Noah’s Ark (Noé bárkája)
Hungary 2007.
Director: Pál Sándor
Cast: Dezső Garas, Angéla Stefanovics, Ferenc Kállai, Mari Törőcsik, András Szőke

A cacophonous comedy set amongst the eccentric, ethnically diverse residents of a crumbling Budapest apartment building, Noah’s Ark is the first feature in two decades from veteran director Pál Sándor — “one of the most distinctive and controversial talents of contemporary Hungarian cinema” (Farkas Csaba). Dezső Garas, a lead in many a previous Sándor film, is elderly curmudgeon Stock, jolted awake in the film’s opening moments by a downpour of Biblical proportions. The film’s central action has Stock and his testy teenaged granddaughter Kati (Angéla Stefanovics), whom he’s single-handedly raising, entering a reality-show competition for “Hungary’s Best Grandfather.” Promising to share the prize money, they enlist the assistance of their neighbours in the dubious quest. The ensemble cast includes Mari Törőcsik, a former Best Actress winner at Cannes, and Ferenc Kállai, one of Hungary’s most prominent and distinguished actors. “Sándor’s affection for his human menagerie keeps them from becoming grotesques… [Noah’s Ark] is at once crass and wistful, direct and allusive, despairing and carnivalesque — but it’s finally nothing if not good-spirited” (Adam Nayman, LA Weekly).  Colour, 35mm, in Hungarian with English subtitles. 104 mins.

Please call 04. 3 771 5714 / 15 to have free tickets at the Embassy of the Republic of Hungary, 12th Floor, Daeha Business Center, 360 Kim Ma Street, Ba Dinh District, Hanoi.