Márta Mészáros, one of the most acclaimed female directors in Hungarian cinema, intertwines personal and cultural memory in her latest film (to date), Aurora Borealis: Northern […]
Becoming Woman in One`s Heimat. Performance of Gender and Age in Bettina Oberli`s Late Bloomers and Dušan Zorić and Matija Gluščević`s Have You Seen This Woman? In […]
When taking into consideration the production of European films about ageing in the twenty-first century, one of the potential avenues for exploration is the engagement of […]
Ghosts of Futures Past: Revising The Eternal Daughter Preparing for my November conference at the Cornelia Goethe Center in Frankfurt was a perfect opportunity to revisit […]
As the fourth anniversary of the outbreak of the Covid pandemic approaches, Europe finally seems to have entered an endemic stage of cohabitation with the virus. […]
I’m an Old Communist Hag (Sunt o babă comunistă, Stere Gulea, 2013) is based on Dan Lungu’s widely popular and internationally recognized Romanian novel of the […]
Although one month ago, French movie icon Catherine Deneuve celebrated her 80th birthday, she is still far from retirement: after a much talked-about commercial for Cartier […]
“The fact of existence is in itself euphoric” – says Éva Fahidi, a Hungarian-Jewish Holocaust survivor in Réka Szabó’s 2019 multi-award-winning documentary film, The Euphoria of […]
At the face of decline: Ageing as comedy in contemporary French cinema On Saturday 14th October, members of the French and English team of the AGE-C […]
Image credit: photographed by Craig Blankenhorn for HBO Max. Written by: Gloria Dagnino In July this year, the HBO Max dramedy And Just Like That (AJLT) […]
Image credit: “The Death of Mr. Lazarescu”, directed by Cristi Puiu, produced by Alexandru Munteanu, 2005 Written by: Boglárka Angéla Farkas Cristi Puiu’s second feature film, […]