Somewhere in the remote region, the war ends. In the midst of ruined cities and houses in the streets, in rural hamlets, everywhere where people still live, are children who have lost their homes and parents. Abandoned, hungry, and in rags, defenseless and humiliated, they wander through the world. Hunger drives them. Little streams of orphans merge into a river which rushes forward and submerges everything in its path. The children do not know any feeling; they know only the world of their enemies. They fight, steal, struggle for a mouthful of food, and violence is merely a means to get it. A gang led by Cahoun finds a refuge in an abandoned castle and encounters an old composer who has voluntarily retired into solitude from a world of hatred, treason, and crime. How can they find a common ground, how can they become mutual friends? The castle becomes their hiding place but possibly it will also be their first home which they may organize and must defend. But even for this, the price will be very high.
To this simple story, the journalist, writer, poet, scriptwriter, movie director, and film theoretician Béla Balázs applied many years of experience. He and the director Géza Radványi created a work which opened a new postwar chapter in Hungarian film. Surprisingly, this film has not lost any of its impact over the years, especially on a profound philosophical level. That is to say, it is not merely a movie about war; it is not important in what location and in what period of time it takes place. It is a story outside of time about the joyless fate of children who pay dearly for the cruel war games of adults.
At the time it was premiered, the movie was enthusiastically received by the critics. The main roles were taken by streetwise boys of a children's group who created their roles improvisationally in close contact with a few professional actors, and in the children's acting their own fresh experience of war's turmoil appears to be reflected. At the same time, their performance fits admirably into the mosaic of a very complex movie language. Balázs's influence revealed itself, above all, in the introductory sequences: an air raid on an amusement park, seen in a montage of dramatic situations evoking the last spasms of war, where, undoubtedly, we discern the influence of classical Soviet cinematography. Shooting, the boy's escape, the locomotive's wheels, the shadows of soldiers with submachine guns, the sound of a whistle—the images are linked together in abrupt sequences in which varying shots and expressive sharp sounds are emphasized. A perfectly planned screenplay avoided all elements of sentimentality, time-worn stereotypes of wronged children, romanticism and cheap simplification. The authors succeeded in bridging the perilous dramatic abyss of the metamorphosis of a children's community. Their telling of the story (the scene of pillaging, the assault on the castle, etc) independently introduced some neorealist elements which, at that time, were being propagated in Italy by De Sica, Rossellini, and other film artists. The rebukes of contemporary critics, who called attention to "formalism for its own sake" have been forgotten. The masterly art of cameraman Barnabás Hegyi gives vitality to the poetic images. His angle shots of the children, his composition of scenes in the castle interior, are a living document of the times, and underline the atmosphere and the characters of the protagonists. The success of the picture was also enhanced by the musical art of composer Dénes Buday who, in tense situations, inserted the theme of the Marseilaise into the movie's structure, as a motive of community unification, as an expression of friendship and the possibility of understanding.
Valahol Europaban is the first significant postwar Hungarian film. It originated in a relaxed atmosphere, replete with joy and euphoria, and it includes these elements in order to demonstrate the strength of humanism, tolerance, and friendship. It represents a general condemnation of war anywhere in the world, in any form.
中国人都向往的中年生活：咖啡、话剧、画廊、费里尼，太灵了。
国内真难得呀，画展tag让我想到大冰两秒....dbq
但都没有关系，作为一部中产爱情小品堪称完美。况且人物够鲜活，意义和感受就自然产生了。
1.一部很上海很洋气的电影，这个演员阵容，饭局上互飙演技也是棋逢对手了。倪虹洁还在秀身材，但是本短发控还是更喜欢马伊琍那种知性熟女。
2.5 肥皂剧改成电影真的欣赏不来，不如改名《老时代》
比《北京爱情故事》高级了不知道多少层次的“上海爱情故事”。
没有人在上海和你聊费里尼。/ 纽约独立电影的外衣，包裹几位主演十多年来交错饰演过的国产电视剧内核，打磨出一个豆瓣&小红书（重叠）用户趣味的都市爱情小品。那些常见的文艺中年，如老乌不合时宜，似老白不忍断舍离，不管「为谁辛苦为谁忙」，仍渴望「红拂」「夜奔」，拼命抓住罗曼蒂克的尾巴。取景地亲切，全程沪语是特点也是牢笼。（如果主演设定为沪漂，人物故事更加多元立体，或许会更好。）吴越真实自然；倪虹洁在KTV唱歌到关门一瞬的黯然神伤，呈现了可能目前为止最好的演技。徐峥演上海中年男人，已是炉火纯青。周野芒完全沪上「白相人」爷叔本叔，餐桌独白太惊艳！那年跑去法国留学，没有说出口的事儿或许比爱情更神话？ 结尾似《维莉蒂安娜》，也像《访谈录》，用俗世消解神话，延缓罗曼蒂克的消亡，一种“爱具体的人”之诠释。6.5
把这部电影跟伍迪艾伦相提并论显然是过于抬举这部电影了，但在很多方面确实让我想起彭浩翔的《志明与春娇》，都有对所表现城市内在气质与独特趣味的精准捕捉，同时导演很有自知之明的回避掉更宏大的叙事而专注于个人化的情感体验。我曾经跟朋友开玩笑说彭浩翔努努力是可以朝伍迪艾伦靠近的，但彭浩翔更喜欢卖弄自己的小聪明，他对爱情保持着一种虚无主义的游戏态度，但姿态上总是有一种男性天然的优越感，令人讨厌。而邵艺辉这部电影在观感上是更放松的，导演当然也会说出自己对生活和感情的观察，但姿态上是一种拉家常的平等感，就像最后所有人涂着护手霜看费里尼的《爱情神话》，这种在轻与重之间平衡感的拿捏，是非常绝妙的。
难得国产电影也可以像日本一样拍比较家常、靠近生活的题材，超出预期了
上海的男人永远要面对一个个见过世面的女人，他们在女人们的眼神话语微妙的交叉火线中努力低着头陪着笑保护自己的身价让度自己的主体性在自嘲中拥有一点自尊，他们承住女人全部的琐碎、叹气、不甘心，期待着翻身的那一刻，他们其实不软不弱不是小男人。准确的太准确的。表面上架构了一个挺女尊的故事，但外面的大框架却是三个“弃妇”和一个“弃夫”的故事，你不能忽视这个“弃”，因为这并非自由选择的结果。上海人作为最城市化国际化的都市人，他们的方法论在炉火纯青，本质上也是一种贴金术。这部电影的好就在于“不撕开”，只是浅尝辄止，人的被选择的哀伤被裹上了一层自由选择的金纸。
在上海生活过的人可能更能感受这部电影给人带来的氛围感、共鸣感吧！（21年院线电影除了感谢爱情神话之外，就是隔壁雄狮了
别杠我，杠就是你对。
✪94//第二遍看时连最初没留下美好第一印象的开场都看着顺眼，开篇后来的每段戏都有我入迷的节奏（无论表演或影像内容编排），场景灵了、机位和运镜灵了、对白也灵了，每当两个人说上话时似乎都要有好神奇的事发生：寻常生活的小麻烦在自然的谈天里渐渐走向水到渠成，偶尔冒出的矛盾慢慢已经看来不是什么大事。太喜欢角色之间好自在、几乎一根刺都不带、带刺也不扎人的交流。
上海小资情调的中年生活，全程聊天，没有完整商业化故事设计。
预定年度最佳，目前为止看过最好看的商业电影，有趣又有深度，难能可贵。
人到中年，两男三女间关于爱情，又不至于爱情的上海生活，构成了《爱情神话》的主线。在这部以生活流为基调的电影中，作为导演的邵艺辉在情绪的表达上虽然始终是克制的，然而过于戏剧化的矛盾张力，以及过犹不及的表达欲，使这个本具有烟火气，能深入生活的故事，变得失真造作了起来。
最后轮流涂护手霜的场景像不像疫情期间轮流涂消毒液的我们？「什么乳化不乳化的，不要乳化」
2022001，橙天嘉禾。“罗兰自称芳名苏菲亚，男孩就会倒下。”
多好。精致又市井，高端又充满烟火气，怀有静谧的激情，也有烈火烹烧下的苦涩，生活哪有那么多千回百转轰轰烈烈，只不过是平平淡淡细水长流，偶尔再吃上一把糖。
但都没有关系，作为一部中产爱情小品堪称完美。况且人物够鲜活，意义和感受就自然产生了。
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