MAYBE TOMORROW

Unmade beds, a clock stopped when grandmother died, a pile of books fallen from the shelf, a plate full of cold spaghetti, a pair of panties on the back of an arm chair, unwashed cups and champagne glasses – Judit Elek's film needs a good cleanup, as a critic remarked wryly back in 1980. MAYBE TOMORROW was the director's first feature film after an imposed pause of eight years. The two protagonists are lovers but married to other people: a commonplace story. Elek submits a diagnosis of a comfortable but profoundly incapable society, a Hungary suffering from an endemic private life disorder, observable both among the urban middle and the rural lower classes.