One of the weirdest films I've ever seen, so if you like weird, see it! The Hungarian DVD has English subtitles (that call the movie "Sound Erotica").
The set-up is the typical male-versus-female bosses-versus-workers arrangement in a small wooden-crate-making factory. Rajhony plays the boss with the yoghurt fetish, while Koltai plays the guy he employs as his fire-safety chief. Koltai suggests installing CCTV, but to spy on the girls rather than to protect them. The firm soon starts selling a lot more crates, as they invite clients in to watch the girls undressing before and after work. Of course, in the end the girls find out and exact revenge.
But the weirdness isn't so much in the silly story as in the way Timar films it. First, it's in black and white. Second, the dialogue is in a stilted, poetic form, somewhat reminiscent of Greek tragedies. Third, much of the movie was filmed backwards. If you know "De Fem Benspænd" you'll recognise these as what film-makers call "obstructions".
The denouement brought to mind a couple of 20th-century classics: Duerrenmatt's "Biedermann und die Brandstifter" and Romanik's "Static".
The acting... Rajhona and Nemeth (the bolshie worker) are excellent, Koltai is, well, Koltai, and Kristof (the boss's secretary) hams it up better than Timar could've dreamed for. All in all, I can't say the film's a "classic", but I enjoyed it.
The set-up is the typical male-versus-female bosses-versus-workers arrangement in a small wooden-crate-making factory. Rajhony plays the boss with the yoghurt fetish, while Koltai plays the guy he employs as his fire-safety chief. Koltai suggests installing CCTV, but to spy on the girls rather than to protect them. The firm soon starts selling a lot more crates, as they invite clients in to watch the girls undressing before and after work. Of course, in the end the girls find out and exact revenge.
But the weirdness isn't so much in the silly story as in the way Timar films it. First, it's in black and white. Second, the dialogue is in a stilted, poetic form, somewhat reminiscent of Greek tragedies. Third, much of the movie was filmed backwards. If you know "De Fem Benspænd" you'll recognise these as what film-makers call "obstructions".
The denouement brought to mind a couple of 20th-century classics: Duerrenmatt's "Biedermann und die Brandstifter" and Romanik's "Static".
The acting... Rajhona and Nemeth (the bolshie worker) are excellent, Koltai is, well, Koltai, and Kristof (the boss's secretary) hams it up better than Timar could've dreamed for. All in all, I can't say the film's a "classic", but I enjoyed it.
