Synopse

33-years-old Tamás Merthner, has just had his heart shattered by his girlfriend, Anna. In Paris, of all places, the city of love. So Tamás returns to Budapest, devastated and confused. He tries to process his sorrow by recalling his childhood memories and trying to understand this happened to him.
The memories erupting inside Tamás follow a loose string of associations and it seems that his present suffering is a consequence of events from the past. His relationship with women was never simple. In high school, he only got as far as a kiss in the girls bathroom with Mónika. And he wrote at least a hundred poems for another girl he loved, but completely in vain. Tamáss feelings always surfaced through artistic expression, whether it was through painting, music, or filmmaking.
As he recalls his past, Tamás characters of various ages appear before him and reflect with humorous self-irony upon his past and present behavior. Finally Tamás comes to realize that love is not just about artistic self-expression but about those people who tried to love him in the meantime. Anna was the only woman in his life who loved him unconditionally, who could remain a child with him among all the adults. In order to recover his lost love, for the first time in his life, he must surrender his own ego.

Regie

GÁBOR REISZ (*1980 in Ungarn) won several awards for his comedy For Some Inexplicable reason (2014), which was also shown in the cinema in Germany. Bad Poems is his third film.

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