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Sundance Film Festival is the biggest American film festival for independent film. Directors like Kevin Smith and Quentin Tarantino had their breakthrough at Sundance.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n

Director L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Csuja (37) tells in SZEL\u00cdD, Gentle in English, the story of Edina, a female bodybuilder, played by Eszter Csonka. In real life Eszter is also a professional bodybuilder: \u201cFor my movie I never use professional actors as main characters. I like a reality in my movies and want my main character to be in this reality.\u201d SZEL\u00cdD will be L\u00e1szl\u00f3 (37) second future length film: \u201cIt is the most brave and ambitious movie of my life.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n

Two weeks before the premiere of SZEL\u00cdD, me and Laszlo spoke via Skype. He just got the notion that Sundance would be totally online; again: \u201cI\u2019m very sad. You know I believe in cinema; the problem is that watching a movie at home is a totally different state of mind, everything is moving in the world, while in cinema everything is silent accept the movie.\u201d He would\u2019ve preferred that Sundance Film Festival had delayed the screenings, just like Festival de Cannes did last year.<\/p>\n

L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Csuja was the oldest of six in his family. His love for directing started because he and his brothers and sisters performed little theater in the house: \u201cBecause I was the oldest, I was the director, I really liked theater. Around the same time his true love for movies started: \u201cWe didn\u2019t have a television in our house, so I didn\u2019t see a lot of moving images. What I would do is, I would go around the neighborhood and watch the movies that they were watching. But this was nothing like going to the cinema for the first time. I still remember seeing Vili, a ver\u00e9b (1989) \u2013 A Hungarian cartoon, the English adaptation is called Willy the Sparrow \u2013 After the movie I wondered around the neighborhood all day, just silent.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Watching SZEL\u00cdD premiere at Sundance Film Festival – Photo: Stefan Dwarswaard<\/p>\n\n[aesop_quote type=”block” background=”#ffffff” text=”#de910d” align=”left” size=”1″ quote=”\u201cThe more time I spent in this world, the more I realize that there is nothing different about female bodybuilders. They want to be loved, they want to express themselves, they seek self-fulfillment. They shape their bodies like a sculptor – it is their work, their art, just like this movie is ours.\u201d” cite=”Quote from the directors” parallax=”off” direction=”left” revealfx=”off”]\n

The interest in bodybuilding started when L\u00e1szl\u00f3 met Anna Nemes in 2016: \u201cOne day, she was walking and, on the street, she found the book of Arnold Schwarzenegger. She soon found out that the female bodybuilders are more interesting because it raises more questions. It is more unconventional.\u201d<\/p>\n\n[aesop_quote type=”block” background=”#ffffff” text=”#de910d” align=”left” size=”1″ quote=”\u201cJust like in Bodybuilding, Eszter wants to be the best actress.\u201d” cite=”L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Csuja ” parallax=”off” direction=”left” revealfx=”off”]\n\n

While Edina builds her body up, she ruins it at the same time because of the drugs. The two sides of Edina are implemented through bodybuilding and escorting. A fictional scenario but based on the reality, that L\u00e1szl\u00f3 and Anna found in their research: \u201cwe found out that escorting yourself as bodybuilder was not rare. The body enhancing medication is expensive and with training all day most bodybuilders don\u2019t have time for a normal job.\u201d While SZEL\u00cdD is not a personal story, L\u00e1szl\u00f3 sees a lot of his relationship with his ex and co-director Anna Nemes back in the movie: \u201cSomehow, we articulated our own situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

L\u00e1szl\u00f3 is looking forward to the premiere at Sundance: \u201cI saw the movie 80 times. I counted. I can\u2019t feel anything anymore, so I\u2019m waiting to see it with an audience and see their reactions. It\u2019s already a great success, because it is the first Hungarian feature film to be premiered at Sundance. So I\u2019m proud and honored.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Me at Flex Gym, the bodybuildingclub of Hungary<\/p><\/div>\n

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