I saw this in the cinema on release and it was as hard to pin down what to like about it as it is now. There is much to like about it but if you try and describe what that is, the film sounds like a boring mess. The story itself rambles on like the live of the characters who mange to grow on us and each other, maybe because they seem to have no idea how to relate to each other but manage to form friendships and have a pretty mundane adventure that nevertheless draws you in.
Eva is from Budapest is visiting her cousin in New York and well, nothing much happens. She meets his best friend but never sees anything but the depressing little section of the city they live in so she goes to Cleveland which is not much different (something the characters remark on) and then to some similarly run down part of Florida together. They have no real plans and their inability to really communicate well leads to the wrong character going back to Budapest.
The cinematography of the film, I think, is what pulls us in. The dialogue is funny, but not joke-y, we just see how absurd tiny mundane detail can be and end up having feelings for people that in any other film we wouldn't even notice. It can be hard to stop watching even though you know no one in it is really going anywhere. Well, except the one the ends up in Budapest.
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Not sure if this is one I would watched based on the description, though I have been in Budapest. Huh. What was it that made you want to see it in the first place, do you remember?
It was the 80s and it was such an odd film looking at the poster. We just went to a lot of weird stuff and this came around. I did like it but I am positive there is a large population that would think it was like paint dry. Alienation is a theme I resonate with and this has that in spades. You never see Budapest… or anyplace that isn’t a dump!
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