He won't be back for a long time

It is a most unusual film by the great Hungarian director Kroly Makk. It opens with a 16-minute "Introduction" (2003) in which Makk explains the background to his making of Love, a film that required many patient years to create and finish. In it you learn about his relation to Tibor Dry's life story, on which the movie is based, his problems of identifying the three lead actors, including a trip to Berlin to consider Bertolt Brecht's widow, and the delays caused in the 1960s when trying to make a film about a political prisoner and the problems of living under a dictatorship.

Makk also explains how he decided to visually recreate an old lady's reminiscences - not through elaborate flash backs in sepia or out of focus, or some other technique that is normally used, but by simply pausing (all too briefly for me) on stills and scenes from her past as she recalls them.