MY 20TH CENTURY

Twin sisters Dóra and Lili emerge from the womb to see the light of the sun the exact day that Edison unveils his revolutionary incandescent bulb. Separated during childhood, they keep pace with the new century on differing paths: Lili as an anarchist, Dóra as a con artist. Their lives intersect repeatedly, particularly as they are both having an affair with the same mysterious aristocrat. In the gentleman’s imagination, they blend into a single individual, the perfect woman. Full of ironic ruptures, Enyedi’s allegorical trip back in time to the roots of the 20th century depicts stations in the lives of its two female protagonists as manifestations of an envisioned future that would fail to materialise.