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The AUBG Documentary Club screened the Hungarian documentary “Stream of Love” on Monday, March 10 and had a Q&A session via Skype with the director, Ágnes Sós. The documentary reflects the love lives and instincts of a group of elderly people from a native Hungarian village in Romania.
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The protagonists share their most intimate thoughts juicy details of their present and/or past love lives. The director confessed that it was easy to get the elderly people to talk about taboo topics. Once she almost dropped the camera because “they were too open.” The comical stories, that can sometimes be dramatic too, are often complemented by the beautiful landscape shots, the silence of the manual labor and the ear-pleasing atmospheric sounds, which makes the whole setting of the movie seem very idyllic.
“Stream of Love” allows viewers to take a peek into old Feri’s love adventures with the women in the village, commiserate with an old man who recounts his wife’s countless cheating escapades and get to know an old lady serving three years in a prison because at 80 years old she killed a villager who repeatedly stole from her.
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When Sós was looking for a location, she thought that the Hungarian villages are too modernized, so her friends directed her to Transylvania, Romania, where the predominant minority is Hungarian. When in Romania, in the region of Miercurea Ciuc, the director stumbled upon a book on the peasant culture of sex and sexual morality written by ethnographer Dr. Lajos Balazs. Sós immediately started to collaborate with the professor and scout for the perfect archaic location.
The Hungarian director already has over 20 feature length and 15 short documentaries under her belt. While shooting “Stream of Love” for a period of three years she gathered only 50 hours of footage. Sós recognizes that the hours are not so many for such a long period, but she is used to not filming continuously, so sometimes she will switch the camera on and off.
When asked to give some advice for future filmmakers in the audience, she said “if you give a lot of work, then you can get more and more from the film. Also, during the editing somehow the film comes alive, and it’s not you who makes the film, the film makes itself, it gives you presents.”
The “Stream of Love” will be soon be screened on March 21 and March 23 at Thessaloniki International Documentary Film Festival in Thessaloniki, Greece.
The images used are courtesy of www.facebook.com/szerelempatak
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The protagonists share their most intimate thoughts juicy details of their present and/or past love lives. The director confessed that it was easy to get the elderly people to talk about taboo topics. Once she almost dropped the camera because “they were too open.” The comical stories, that can sometimes be dramatic too, are often complemented by the beautiful landscape shots, the silence of the manual labor and the ear-pleasing atmospheric sounds, which makes the whole setting of the movie seem very idyllic.
“Stream of Love” allows viewers to take a peek into old Feri’s love adventures with the women in the village, commiserate with an old man who recounts his wife’s countless cheating escapades and get to know an old lady serving three years in a prison because at 80 years old she killed a villager who repeatedly stole from her.
[caption id="attachment_19445" align="alignleft" width="253" caption="Ágnes Sós filming "Stream of Love""][/caption]
When Sós was looking for a location, she thought that the Hungarian villages are too modernized, so her friends directed her to Transylvania, Romania, where the predominant minority is Hungarian. When in Romania, in the region of Miercurea Ciuc, the director stumbled upon a book on the peasant culture of sex and sexual morality written by ethnographer Dr. Lajos Balazs. Sós immediately started to collaborate with the professor and scout for the perfect archaic location.
The Hungarian director already has over 20 feature length and 15 short documentaries under her belt. While shooting “Stream of Love” for a period of three years she gathered only 50 hours of footage. Sós recognizes that the hours are not so many for such a long period, but she is used to not filming continuously, so sometimes she will switch the camera on and off.
When asked to give some advice for future filmmakers in the audience, she said “if you give a lot of work, then you can get more and more from the film. Also, during the editing somehow the film comes alive, and it’s not you who makes the film, the film makes itself, it gives you presents.”
The “Stream of Love” will be soon be screened on March 21 and March 23 at Thessaloniki International Documentary Film Festival in Thessaloniki, Greece.
The images used are courtesy of www.facebook.com/szerelempatak