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    Iron Wills

    May 03, 2019 2 minutes
    By Max Nelson

    Adoption & The Two of Them

    Márta Mészáros, 1975 & 1977

    Hungarian Film Archive

    In the mid-1970s an idea seemed to haunt the hungarian filmmaker Márta Mészáros. A woman with a steady job and a settled routine meets a younger woman whose own life is restless—people call her wayward, consider her a problem—and and , two of the nine Mészáros films the Hungarian Film Archive is restoring this year, she played with variations on that premise, bringing together her central characters and then wrenching them back apart.

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