"Sunday Daughters"
1980
Directed by Janosz Rozsa

A film compared to Truffaut's 400 Blows, set in an institution for teenage girls, directed with verve and compassion by Janosz Rozsa. Juli, a 16-year-old inmate, seems to be moving toward delinquency, and after repeated rejections from her family, escapes. After a close call with death, she survives and her life brightens when an older woman takes her in, but these hopes are smashed when Juli becomes involved with the woman's son. Using non-professional actors, Rozsa delivers stunning performances in a film that is both endearing and probing. Hungarian with English subtitles. 100 minutes.