Priit Pärn Visiting Budapest

The maestro of Estonian animation, Priit Pärn has confirmed a visit to Budapest in May 2009. Attending the Estonian Cultural Week, Priit and his wife Olga will present their second joint venture, "Life without Gabriella Ferri".

The new Pärn film that has been conquering the international festival scene since late 2008, combines the patent grotesque humour of Pärn's with a touch of feminine sensuality. Thematically reminicent of an earlier film, "The Triangle" (1982), Life without Gabriella Ferri also explores the (love)life of a couple, but does that within a more complex world. Cooking, having also created sexual allusions in the earlier film, has occupied a self-righteous part in the couple's sexual rituals, and the earlier mythical antagonist has taken the shape of realistic characters both inside and outside home.

Synopsis:
Dramatic story about love, locked doors, faceless thief, wounded stork, lost laptop and virtual prostitutes O'Key sisters... There is no Gabriella Ferri but there is an almost happy end.

Selected filmography of Priit Pärn:
Kas maakera on ümmargune? (Is the Earth Round?, 1977), Kolmnurk (The Triangle, 1982), Eine murul (Breakfast on the Grass, 1987), Hotel E (1992), 1895 (1995, co-director), Porgandite öö (Night of the Carrots, 1998), Karl ja Marilyn (Karl and Marilyn, 2003), Frank ja Wendy (Frank and Wendy, 2005, co-director), Must lagi (Black Ceiling, 2007, co-director), Elu ilma Gabriella Ferrita (Life Without Gabriella Ferri, 2008, co-director).