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.
哭到不行，想念hk，真的想念。那些无忧无虑的日子，电影本身一般，但是为了那些日子，为了梅艳芳的那句身体力行的香港是我家，我要无脑给五星
是不是梅艳芳的人生就像她自己讲的那样太顺利了，所以这电影拍得流水账一版，越看越无聊下去了。我很喜欢看传记或者类传记电影，看一个人人生的起起落落，励志热血感同身受，但这个电影什么都没有给我。除了第一集有点儿意思，第二三集的爱情流水，一集一个男朋友不说，还都对个人成长没啥影响似的。所谓的人生大事掌掴视角，最精彩的也就刚开始那里，后面两个前后背景什么的都没给交代清楚，就像是找了个理由给小情侣泰国蜜月游。最后一集全部集中回和张国荣的友情，借着哥哥的意外，说回梅艳芳面临的癌症和死亡，可是结局戛然而止意欲何为？没有赵文卓我很失望。演员选的不错，扮相也很好，然而几十年里没有衰老迹象，总让人没有岁月流逝的概念，一种架空感，对于人物传记来说是硬伤啊。
我是想給個7分，主要是因為看到還原的幾個大場景，覺得做得真不容易。王丹妮開始要適應一下，但是隨著電影推進，眼見到她和梅姐的距離在縮小。導演說，張國榮的演員劉俊謙開拍後就瘦下去。總算「胭脂扣」那場，兩人來了電。廖子妤之前拍一部電影時，我去做群演，看到了她本人。這次感覺很不同，她有下功夫研究這個角色，並且在戲外經營和丹妮的姐妹情誼。兩個人很默契。至於那些人生片段應該放入或不放入，沒有什麼好討論的，每個導演都拍自己能夠有感受的部分就好了。我喜歡 Biopic，感受時代的變遷，看著一個人如潮起潮落的悲歡，到她去給哥哥送行，路邊粉絲喊「撐住啊！」淚奔了……
俗套的结构，但是有内容，数不尽的黑色幽默，还有满满的感情。
非常好莱坞的一片
[2021.10.31 @IS激光IMAX] // [2021.10.16 @PE] 慈善优先场
好温馨好可爱好轻松好愉快，完全都是合家欢大俗套，但好人得好报拍的那么自然舒适，还是很棒
好想念他们 好想回到过去
比原版内容更丰富、更有趣，配角们都很鲜活、很出色，葬礼一段很感人。
我觉得女主演技已经很好了，甩其他年轻演员十条街，演张国荣那位一说话就带我出戏。真的能看出演技起码古天乐和林家栋没让我出戏。电影本质好像是流水账，而且美化了很多，一切都顺风顺水，而且跳了很多剧情… 被感动的是梅艳芳这个是生来就属于舞台的巨星
看着现在的金像奖、金鸡奖不由又悲从中来。
香港女儿闪艳光，一代天后显芳华。
尽管是虚伪富商危机公关之下的一场充满戏剧化的温情剧，却也将某种政治正确的种族融洽灌汇在全片始末，可贵也为这轮翻盘增味许多
虽然很俗套 虽然现实生活里这类故事根本不太可能发生 但是我好喜欢！！！
勉强七分，而且在我看来，超过原版的评分是不公正的，因为法版叙事更加顺畅，喜剧就应该简练……
3.5挺老套的剧情，但是并没有拍的很俗套，关系衔接的很自然 ，还不错
“希望大家在某个吃饱饭的晚上，打开窗，看着天上的星星，想起那个曾经很熟悉的名字：梅艳芳。”
还可以，剧情有老套的部分，但总体呈现不算无聊。半夜看也看完了。“Well done”
热闹又好看，艳丽又平滑，喜剧不易。除了那个冲突稍显用力外，其他都很棒喔。
风华绝代尤可见，世间再无梅艳芳。
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