FORBIDDEN RELATIONS

Zsolt Kezdi-Kovacs (“The Nice Neighbor”) based his controversial film on his interviews with the real-life couple he read about in a newspaper. The lyrically photographed film opens with a suicide and ends with a birth – the second, normal child born of the illicit and very intense passion of a brother/sister relationship. After her husband's suicide, Juli returns to her parents in a small village, where she Gyorgy on a bus. Their attraction leads to an erotic affair – then Juli's mother unwittingly reveals that Gyorgy is her son from an earlier marriage. By now the couple's love is obsessive and their guilt-ridden mother reports them to the police. But nothing can keep this pair apart. FORBIDDEN RELATIONS is spendidly directed and performed.