MY twentieth CENTURY

New Jersey, 1880. Thomas Edison displays his newly invented electric light. In Budapest, meanwhile, a woman gives birth to twin girls. Twenty years later the twins, separated in childhood, pursue radically different paths: hedonistic Dóra (Dorota Segda) seduces and tricks men; Lili (Segda again) is a feminist revolutionary. Ildikó Enyedi’s playful historical fantasy toys with ideas, technology and the birth of modernism. It may not totally hold together, but it’s unfailingly charming and looks gorgeous. Philip Kemp