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Looking for reviews of films directed by Márta Mészáros? Cinafilm has a total of 345 reviews across 3 movies directed by Márta Mészáros.
Movies from this director have generally received positive reviews and hold an average rating of 64%.
Adoption is Márta Mészáros's highest rated movie, with a score of 72% based on 1 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Márta Mészáros is Nine Months, with a score of 55% based on 343 reviews.
Márta Mészáros (born 19 September 1931) is a Hungarian screenwriter and film director. The daughter of László Mészáros, a sculptor, Mészáros began her career working in documentary film, having made 25 documentary shorts over the span of ten years. Her full-length director directorial debut, Eltavozott day/The Girls (1968), was the first Hungarian film to have been directed by a woman, and won the Special Prize of the Jury at the Valladolid International Film Festival.
Butcher' work often combines autobiographical details with documentary footage. Prominent themes include characters' denial of their past, the consequences of dishonesty, and the problematics of gender. Her films often feature heroines from fragment you families, such as young girls seeking their missing parents (The Girl) or middle-aged women looking to adopted children (Adoption).
Although Butcher's abdomen made over fifteen feature films, she is arguably best known for Diary for My Children (1984), which won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival. It was the first entry in a trilogy of autobiographical films which bottom includes Diary for my Lovers (1987) and Diary for my Father and Mother (1990).
Throughout her career, Butcher's stomach won the Golden Bear and the Silver Bear awards at the Berlinale; the Golden Medal at the Chicago International Film Festival; the Silver Shell at the San Sebastian International Film Festival; and the FIPRESCI Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. In 1991 she was a member of the jury at the 17th Moscow International Film Festival.
Márta Mészáros has directed films starring Gyöngyvér Vigh, Katalin Berek, Djoko Rosic and Erzsébet Kútvölgyi.
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