Amerikai Magyar Szó, 1979. január-június (33. évfolyam, 1-26. szám)

1979-05-24 / 21. szám

IO Thursday, May 24. 1979. • • j AN INTERVIEW WITH MARTA MÉSZÁROS (cont. from p. 7.) She has persevered with the cinema of the inner world, with that “introspection” which she main­tains is not very characteristic of women directors. “Bergman is fascinated by people and faces, too, and Cassavetes is also brilliant at this kind of film- making.” All her films combat the depersonalization of the individual. “But then, this problem for individuals of finding their place in society is worldwide; I think the question of the relations between man and woman, these psychological problems, are just as much in the forefront in the socialist countries as in Africa or Latin America. From all around us we receive so much information, so many emotions. “These days the problems are political and eco­nomic, too- in short it’s not simple, and directors who declare, ‘This is how I see it politically’ always surprise me. Myself I never feel I know.” But that uncertainty never prevents her working which is her one passion. “I love filming and I’m not afraid of filming. Yesterday I told Zurlini / a ju. ry member at Locarno/ that in a fortnight I’d be filming again, and he remarked, ‘How can you keep so calm when I’m always so apprehensive?’ That’s an unknown feeling to me. Working always makes me feel good. When I was shooting Just Like at Home,the work gave me so much enjoyment. I very much liked the little girl /Zsuzsa Czinkóczi/, and most of all I was able to work excellently with the cameraman, Lajos Koltai. He can make everything come alive; he catches the actors’ movements very exactly. On the other hand, I didn’t like working with János Kende at all. For instance, in The Two of Them he photographed the faces and scenes far too coldly. He never caught Marina Vlady and Lili Monori together, and so much of what went on between them was lost. In Koltai’s hands it would have turned into an utterly different film. But for Jancso’s films Kende is brilliant, because he likes scenery, whereas he doesn’t like faces and warmth.” She keeps mentioning the name of Jancso. With him and András Kovács she set up in 1963 the Béla Balázs Studio, where many of the younger genera­tion of Hungarian film-makers have worked. Now there is just a single thought on her mind- the film she is to make in Poland with her present husband, Jan Nowicki /whom we’ve seen in The Two of Them, and also as the protagonist of Just Like at Home/. This new film, the first Hungarian- Polish co-production, will be entitled On the Way: it will tell the tale of a Polish woman who fled to Hungary in the Second World War and returns home later. “It’s a long time since I decided Hungary was to be my home, even though I’ve lived in several places-Soviet Union, Vienna and Italy. Now my husband is a Pole and I am living in Poland. My pa­rents were ‘world-vagabonds’ and I think I’ve be­come the same.” Renew your subscription HERITAGE 130 E 16 St. New York,NY 10003. Enclosed please find $ 3.- for renewal of my subscription to Heritage. My name......................................................... Address:......................................................... Alex Rosner. BOOK REVIEW Helen Caldicott, M.D. Nuclear Madness, Brookline, Mass. Autumn Press, Inc. 1979. 120 pp. $ 3.95. The world has witnessed the use of nuclear ener­gy in warfare. Hiroshima and Nagasaki are here to remind us. Now, what about the development of nuclear power for peaceful purposes, to supply energy, heretofore derived from depleting natural resources? NUCLEAR MADNESS is a well-written text that ' is jam-packed with information to answer many such questions. NUCLEAR MADNESS makes it crystal clear that humankind is in terrible danger because, accor­ding to the author, there is no safe way to use this energy source. 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