Picturesque Epochs – The life of Mária Gánóczy painter and filmmaker

Picturesque Epochs - The life of Mária Gánóczy painter and filmmaker Péter Forgács. Hidden Histories
From 1st to 27th October | online on MyMovies

A four-generation saga in a Hungarian painters dynasty, starting from the half of the XIX Century. At the centre of the family epic, there is the painter and filmmaker Mária Gánoczy, a more-than-ninety-year-old brilliant artist who raised nine children.

 

Picturesque Epochs is a journey through time, spanning two hundred years of Hungarian art and history as seen by the eye of those who paint. Forgács adds to the images art historian Géza Perneczky’s commentary. This monumental and intimate story blends painting and cinema, and so does with private and public life in the tragic story of Hungary. It is part of the series ‘Private Hungary’.

regia

Péter Forgács

running time

133'

film format

video | B&W and colour

year

2017

Country

Hungary

Series

Private Hungary