Ida regénye

I loved this movie. It takes you back to an era where culture, classical music, polite society was the norm and human connections, friendships were meaningful. This movie brings you to times when pace of life/society was slower and enjoyable. It gives the viewers' soul a much needed lift and break from today's hurried, empty, violent, superficial lifestyle. I think, the actors were really great with great chemistry, especially the main characters. My favorite character was Katie the maid, well acted, she was hilarious. Great love story, with a twist, definitely lifted my spirits and will try to find the book to read the original story as well.

The version I saw of this movie at Prime Video this weekend was dubbed in English, so captions or subtitles weren't needed. Lip movement wise it was a good dubbing job, yet the voices of everyone seemed odd and too much like they were reading the dialogue, which of course they were.

Ida was sent to a convent as a young girl after her mother died. When she was supposed to get out, she was told she must stay another year to teach. Now that year is over, she is being told by the Mother Superior she needs to join their order and stay forever. They are interested in the dowry they will receive from her wealthy father, since she will never marry as a nun, and her father does not want her back home.

She does not want to and fortunately finds a way to get tossed out. Her father is shocked to see her and she is shocked to see what is going on in his house. Wild women dancing on the tables, and her father has a fiance who is a year younger than Ida. Ida says she cannot stay there under those conditions, so her father places and ad in the newspaper to marry her off. He is choosy about who he picks, however, and tells her she can get a divorce after the first year of marriage, and then can live alone. As a single woman who never married, she could not do so.

She ends up marrying an artist who needs the money. He is nice looking, well-behaved and apparently has a good family name. He and Ida live together, but agree not to actually be husband and wife. They will divorce after a year. Ida is very sweet and naive, but still quite intelligent. Is this movie a comedy? Not really, in my opinion, except for the maid Kati. Yet it is endearing and old-fashioned and had a nice ending.

Romantic movie without the drama, which should have been if

Unfortunately the former version from 1974 (tt3749338) set the niveau so high, that this version simply could have not reached it.

The male lead was not a good choice, at the end I was asking myself if he is an actor?

I gave a star for being Hungarian movie, because I am a Hungarian.

I gave an additional star, because it roughly follows the written story of one of my favourite writer.

I gave a star for the female lead's performance.

And lastly I gave a star because at least they are tryiing to make movies like this.

I you have not seen the 1974 version, you will have nice evening.

It has a really nice amtosphere, great directing and there is a lot of chemistry between the main charachters. The "from hate to love" story itself never gets old and it still has accuracy for the 21th century, even though the original novel was written a hundred years ago. The movie has good dramaturgy, the romance is well build up and we can see step by step the path that brings the two main characters together. So all together it is really enjoyable, fun and heartwarming movie, the actors doing their best, everything is well made in it. I highly recommend for anyone who is into that kind of romance trope, period drama's and Jane Austen adaptations.

Sometimes you take a chance on a movie and it turns out great. This was a great and simple romantic movie.

On or about the 1920s in some obviously.foreign land...Ida has come of age and her dad has no idea what to do with her. Her dad wants to get remarried and needs Ida out of the house to do so. Ida can't go back to the convent (I guess where she was stashed before) so her dad goes with marriage and posts an ad for someone to marry Ida. Apparently, the marriage doesn't have to be forever because, at this time, divorce is a sufficient reason for Ida to live alone. Dad picks Csaba and, while seemingly polite, Ida knows very little about him. But they agree on a year of fake marriage for both their purposes.

It was a well-written and tight script and I enjoyed almost everything they chose. As mentioned, the couple's sarcastic maid was hysterical... and I enjoyed the non modern reactions to most everything. Ida is a delight. The actress is beautiful and she is meant to be nieve (since she just came out of a convent) and she is, but not in a really cliched way - in a very pure and organic way.

The only real problems for me was that the dubbing was horrible and the voices sounded odd. Also, I was not 100% sure about why things were happening. It is like I needed a refresher video on the social standards of the time.

But I would recommend it.