Hungarian director Ildiko Enyedi crafts a turn-of-the-century
history of twin sisters (including, charmingly, Edison's
invention of the lightbulb). One is a cooing sensualist; the
other a bomb-tossing radical. Neither character is especially
well developed, but that doesn't matter much (if you pay
attention, you may gather that political allegory is at work
here). Actually, the story is only one among many reasons to
delight in this movie, which offers gorgeous black and white
visualizations of odd little vignettes and puzzling non
sequiturs that combine to create a whole experience that is
puzzling and intoxicating.
Fox Lorber released this on home video with "easy view"
subtitles, meaning a gray box blots out what seems like 20
percent of the picture on your screen. Try to see it in a
theater, but it seems unlikely that you'll have the chance.
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