Esti Kornel Csodalatos Utazasa (1995)

Synopsis of Esti Kornel Csodalatos Utazasa

This Hungarian fantasy moves easily from one time to the next as it almost simultaneously presents two train rides in the lifetime of a famous writer; the film is adapted from two short stories by Hungarian writer Dezso Kosztolanyi. The film opens with a scene following young aspiring writer Kornel Esti as he is chased in a train station by a woman disguised as death. The journeys begin. The first is in 1903 and follows the young Kornel as he journeys to the Italian coast. In the second, set in 1933, a middle-aged, burned out and cynical Kornel is heading to Germany to give a guest lecture. Upon both trips, Kornel encounters the same characters. In the first, Kornel is sexually initiated by an enigmatic blonde, meets a pretty woman and her gangly daughter who steals a kiss from the young writer, and has a brief fling with a waitress in a hayloft. In his later years he sees the same characters through jaded, disillusioned eyes. He is oppressed by thoughts of his own cowardly nature. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi

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