Another Way on DVD (1982)

Good Movie

A customer from London , 10/11/2005

This movie shows how intelligent and advanced the former Eastern Bloc writers and directors are. The movie is slow but engrossing, the love match between the two leading characters is fascinating. The love and affection shown by them,draws you the viewer thinking and wishing they fall into each other arms. I defintely recommend this movie.

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Worthwhile drama

A customer from Hampshire England , 28/10/2005

There is much of interest in this film giving some insight both into life in this difficult period and difficulties in life of a more personal nature. There is an interesting introduction by the director which gives a further idea of what he was trying to achieve.I enjoyed the film partly because the central question of motivation is woven into and even distorted by events and yet gives some insight mainly through the powerful lead performances. I felt there was a question mark over the overall perspective of the film which strangely makes it in some ways more interesting.

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Good film, better if I'd known the history of the times I think

LynnUK from London , 12/11/2007

I did enjoy this film and would recommend it. However, I think my enjoyment would have been increased if I knew more about Hungarian politics / history other than the fact that there was a revolution in 1956. I think it would have made a bit more sense to me if I had known a bit of the background of the times. My problem I know!

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Is there a way out?

barbi [Highly rated reviewer] , 29/01/2008

This Hungarian film has some similarities to the plot of Aimee and Jaguar, except that the oppressive regime the Lesbian lovers are fighting against is Communist Hungary rather than Nazi Germany. However, I found it a much more interesting and satisfying film, largely because of the performance of Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieslak as Eva, one of the doomed lovers. I don’t know how she sounded in the part, as she was Polish and the film was dubbed into Hungarian, but she was utterly convincing; the second main character, Livia, was also well played by Grazyna Szapolowska, but possibly with less conviction. Hungary in the late 1950s came over as a grey, friendless place, apart from an expedition to a village where a new political leader has been chosen; the relentless folk dancing there, which Livia joins in with, is one of the interesting uses of Hungarian music in the film; I didn’t catch all the allusions, but there was also a “typical” gypsy band and a piano player in a morose city café who played “Gloomy Sunday” with gay abandon.

So all in all, an interesting film, well acted, well directed, well shot.

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Worthwhile drama

A customer from Hampshire England , 28/10/2005

There is much of interest in this film giving some insight both into life in this difficult period and difficulties in life of a more personal nature. There is an interesting introduction by the director which gives a further idea of what he was trying to achieve.I enjoyed the film partly because the central question of motivation is woven into and even distorted by events and yet gives some insight mainly through the powerful lead performances. I felt there was a question mark over the overall perspective of the film which strangely makes it in some ways more interesting.

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Is there a way out?

barbi [Highly rated reviewer] , 29/01/2008

This Hungarian film has some similarities to the plot of Aimee and Jaguar, except that the oppressive regime the Lesbian lovers are fighting against is Communist Hungary rather than Nazi Germany. However, I found it a much more interesting and satisfying film, largely because of the performance of Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieslak as Eva, one of the doomed lovers. I don’t know how she sounded in the part, as she was Polish and the film was dubbed into Hungarian, but she was utterly convincing; the second main character, Livia, was also well played by Grazyna Szapolowska, but possibly with less conviction. Hungary in the late 1950s came over as a grey, friendless place, apart from an expedition to a village where a new political leader has been chosen; the relentless folk dancing there, which Livia joins in with, is one of the interesting uses of Hungarian music in the film; I didn’t catch all the allusions, but there was also a “typical” gypsy band and a piano player in a morose city café who played “Gloomy Sunday” with gay abandon.

So all in all, an interesting film, well acted, well directed, well shot.

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