Peter Vallai Movies

Elements of mystery and fantasy are deftly interwoven and presented from a child's perspective in this unique film. The basic plot focuses on a police marksman, Max. Recently Max had accidentally shot a hostage, and now his confidence is shaken. He is offered special bullets by a peer. These bullets help him to earn a high score during target shooting. Subsequently, Max receives a special assignment to guard chess grand master, Maxim who must not know a bodyguard has been assigned to him. When Maxim meets Eva, Max's wife, and her daughter Lili, the two are attracted to each other. Their attraction is observed by a sniper. In a parallel subplot, which has a medieval fairy tale setting, a group of do-gooders including Max and Kaspar (the magic bullet man) are battling evil. The film's surprising ending represents Lili's view of recent events. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi

Despite superficial similarities to Naked Lunch, including a low-life and down-on-his-luck writer who experiences hallucinogenically surreal fantasies and confuses them for reality, this experimental, black-and-white drama is not based on William S. Burroughs' classic beat novel. In this movie, the writer earns cash by working at a day job at a factory, and when this isn't enough he takes on his buddy and buddy's girlfriend as roommates. In addition, he sometimes puts on impromptu poetry performances on busy street corners to raise a little cash. Despite some strikingly European fantasies (including one featuring Nubian priests and a Wagnerian heroine), vodka is the fuel this writer uses to keep his creative juices flowing. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

In an odd, sometimes nearly whimsical look at the nature of human curiosity, a certain amount of voyeurism quickly enters into the picture when a young man stops in front of an arcade, caught by the sight of a man and woman undressing in front of a window. Just as he becomes intrigued, he is approached by a stranger and reluctantly hired to spy on the woman in the window. So he starts to follow her (apparently he himself has nothing better to do, and he does not want to return home to a hen-pecking wife) and so his unusual assignment begins. Over a certain amount of time, he himself starts to get involved with the young woman -- although neither he nor the viewers are very clear on what he is supposed to discover about her, and what or why he needs to report. The result is an ironic twist that at least partially explains all this skullduggery.
~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi