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Ildiko Enyedi: "I wanted to show that war does not have the last word"

2022-03-15T14:01:37.737Z


INTERVIEW - Golden Camera at Cannes in 1989 for My 20th Century, Golden Bear at Berlin in 2017 for Body and Soul, the Hungarian filmmaker is fulfilling a teenage dream by adapting Milan Füst's great novel to the screen, My Wife's Story.


It's a little bit of a woman with a piercing gaze.

Soft smile, calm voice, Ildiko Enyedi is passing through Paris, where she receives journalists.

Having studied at the University of Montpellier in 1974, the director of

L'Histoire de ma femme

speaks in a chosen French.

At 66, this Hungarian filmmaker has plenty to be delighted about.

In 1989, his first feature film,

My XXth Century,

won the Camera d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

Twenty-eight years later, his sixth film,

Body and Soul

, received the Golden Bear in Berlin.

She evokes the beautiful destiny of Cannes in her new opus,

L'Histoire de ma femme

, adapted from a Hungarian novel published in 1942, with Léa Seydoux and Louis Garrel.

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My Wife

's Story received an astonishing reception at the last Cannes Film Festival.

What do you think?

Ildiko ENYEDI

.

- Let's say that I knew that my film would certainly be judged against current cinema.

It was risky, but I claim it.

Léa Seydoux told me:

“We don't read such scripts anymore!”…

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