Softwing
Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??
Brennan Camacho
Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.
Haven Kaycee
It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film
SnoopyStyle
It's 1965, Zsuzsi Suzanne Sandor (Scarlett Johansson) is 15 and going back to Hungary. Back in the early 50s, her parents publisher Peter (Tony Goldwyn) and Margit (Nastassja Kinski) are in danger in the repressive Hungary and had to flee with their eldest daughter Maria. The plan was for baby Suzanne to be smuggled out to Vienna but Margit's mother has second thoughts about the dangerous plan. She gives Suzanne to a friend's parents to live with in the countryside. She herself is arrested by the police. Years later with the death of Stalin, she is released. Little Suzanne is sent to America with the tireless work of Margit. Suzanne thinks it's just going to be a visit and she would back for school and to her parents she had known all her life. She doesn't adjust well in America with her overprotective mother. As a teen, Suzanne grows up rebellious yearning to return to Hungary and her other parents.The chemistry between Johansson and Kinski is incredible. I'd rather have Scar Jo in more of the movie leaving much of her childhood as flashbacks. The simple linear storytelling is fine and has some great moments. There are compelling scenes like when little Zsuzsi gets lost in the uniformity of the suburbs. Johansson is just a great actress that it would serve the movie to have her throughout the whole film. Of course, the other way to do this movie is to make it about Margit rather than Suzanne. This has some very memorable moments but the switch from childhood to teenager is a little jarring.
jptimmermans88-262-906166
I saw this film in a French synchronized version(how I "dislike" this!!)But I know now that I must add this one to my DVD-collection!I recognized the acting of Scarlett again as in The Horse Whisperer, and I was happy to see Natassja acting again in a decent movie. But the performance of Raffaella Banragi was absolutely great!!I'm also grateful that I discovered the music of Marta Sebestyen! Question: does anyone know where the black and white pictures came from (the occupation and terror of the Russians-the hangings and Russian soldiers in the streets),or which historical documentary or National Geographicfilm? Would be great if anyone out there would have the answer! Thank you Girls and Boys!!
Furuya Shiro
This is a story of love, under the background of the cold war. When Suzanne reached adolescent age, she was in crisis of her identity, and she traveled to Hungary. During the trip she knew how much selfless love she had from the adopting parents, grand mother and particularly her own mother to whom she was defiant. Knowing that she was loved, she could overcome the crisis. I recall the days of my daughter's crisis in the same age with Suzanne. Though the film has historic locale of Hungary in the cold war, what the film portrays is something universal which has strong power to make people empathize. Scarlett Johansson acted Suzanne in her adolescent age very well. But the adopting parents were most impressive. If I loved my daughter his way she would not have a crisis.
zzbeijing
I was totally absorbed when I watched the movie about 2 months ago, i watched 2 time in a row. It was really moving, and I guess if you really watch it carefully, and understand all the stories in the movie, you would probably fall into tears at some moments. So basically the girl was growing in her home country where her parents escaped to the US because of the political/war reason. But when the girl was warmly greeted in the US airport when she was five years old, she had very serious homesickness. She thought of her foster parents in Hungary very often until she was grown up to 15. and quite understandably, her dad promised her to send her back to her foster parents if she still felt uncomfortable until she was aged. this was a trip to remember, but the director obviously was in a rush, so even though she was quite happy with her foster parents when she was in Hungary, she left again, and went back to her parents in the US. I still did not understand why the girl desired to get back even she had set up some links in the US. and surprisingly she got back soon after she met her grandmom in Hungary. But i like her foster parents so much and their brilliant performance lightened the movie a lot and especially her foster mother, who was really sincere in the film. But the worst one in the movie would be Scarllett Johanson, i saw some other movies of hers. but i did not like any of them. Her voice was bad, and her performance was totally disappointing to me.
