Hungarian cinema rose to prominence in Western eyes on the back of the 1960s New Wave. Now, thirty years later, the term New Wave is being resuscitated to describe the Hungarian cinema of the 1990s. The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London, in honour of some of this decade’s most recent films, organised a mini-retrospective of Hungarian New Waves which contrasted a master who rose to fame in the 1960s with the new breed of Hungarian directors.

 

 

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