A woman who knows what life is about, but wants more from it. When she made <em class="film">Találkozás</em>, Judit Elek was 25 years old and one of the very first women to be admitted to the Hungarian Academy for Theatre and Film Art to study film direction. This first true entry to her filmography is an unusual debut – so mature, so subtle, so deliberately undefined in its narration and yet so certain in its form, a cross between fiction and documentary methods which received a frosty response when presented to the Hungarian film authorities by the Budapest Filmstúdió and the Balázs Béla Stúdió founded only three years previously. The film observes a woman working as a nurse, how she takes care of others, styles herself in front of the mirror and heads off to a rendezvous which turns out to be reserved at best, not least because the not-so-very-young bachelor shows much less emotion than she was maybe expecting. A conversation in a café and on a park bench in Pest – before both go their separate ways. It was said that the film was too sad, too amateurish. But Miklós Jancsó saw it differently and helped with the editing; Louis Marcorelles then discovered it: cinéma vérité!