NOT A THING / VESZÉLYES LEHET A FAGYI

NOT A THING / VESZÉLYES LEHET A FAGYI – Hungary, 2022, 90 min., Drama, Romance

Director: Fanni Szilágyi

Writer: Zsófia Lányi

Cast: Natasa Stork, Márton Patkós, Máté Szabó, Magdi Bódi, Marica Tárnok, László Balkay, Can Togay, Hesna Al Ghaoui, Kaszás Márk, Ödön Rubold

Éva and Adél are identical twins. Despite their apparent successes, they are stuck, hiding their everyday misery from each other. When they fall in love with the same man, they have to face their lies.

Adél found her stability in a workaholic, reserved lifestyle. She distracts herself from everyone and rarely has romantic relationships. She is moving to Norway to work as a radiologist.

Éva seems to have it all. A beautiful baby and a confident and successful husband, Tamas. But internaly, she is very dependent on her husband and too tenuous to be alone. She can’t face the fact, that while Tamas is appealing and socially accepted, he is sometimes abusive and too dominant at home.

The twins’ lives turn upside down when they meet Ákos, a worker in Tamas’s company.

He is everything they are not. A strange object of desire. They both fall in love with him, without knowing the other is doing the same.

When Adel starts dating him, Eva is falling apart. Though it all seems to be about Ákos, the situation leads them to a realization;  what they are  missing is each other.

The story is told from the twins’ conflicting perspectives. It is about two people, who were once sharing the same womb, but life brought them apart, and they are not able to see the other clearly anymore when they really need it.