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tavernier wrote:How about this?

Susan Sarandon, Matt Dillon, Willem Dafoe and Marisa Tomei are all bound for China this June ... as guests of the 14th Shanghai International Film Festival, organizers said on Thursday.
... with Oscar-winning director Barry Levinson as the head of the jury, already is looking more star-studded than previous editions.

Just Sex and Nothing Else (Csak szex és más semi, d. Krisztina Goda, 2005)

From the meet-cute opening in which Dóra (Judit Schell) first encounters Tamás (Sándor Csányi) after she’s bustled almost naked out of her lover’s flat, to the final montage of outtakes, this is just as slick and polished a romantic comedy as any of its Hollywood or Richard Curtis-scripted counterparts: it’s no wonder that Goda was quickly snapped up to make the big-budget Children of Glory. It’s been called a Hungarian Bridget Jones’s Diary, which isn’t quite accurate, since the thirtysomething Dóra is more interested in babies than blokes – the title quotes the most enticing bit of the personal ad she ends up placing, which leads to the familiar parade of overly optimistic horrors. No prizes for guessing how it all turns out, but there’s plenty to enjoy along the way, from some genuinely smart dialogue (I’ve never heard avant-garde composer György Kurtág’s name invoked in a one-liner before) and appealing performances, including Zoltán Seress’ accident-prone musician Péter, Károly Gesztesi’s harassed director Paskó, and Antal Czapkó’s Borat-lookalike Turkish waiter Ali, possibly the film’s only genuine romantic. A huge domestic hit, it’s markedly better than the two Polish romantic comedies I’ve seen recently (The Extras and Midnight Talks).

Lemmy Caution wrote:Thanks for the Goda review, Michael B.
There is a sidebar of Hungarian films at the SIFF.
Wondering if you are familiar with any of them?