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The Hourglass Sanatorium, dir. Wojciech Has, Poland 1973, Polish with English subtitles
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The Long Strange Trips of Wojciech Jerzy Has
An opulently strange and hallucinatory masterpiece that filters Bruno Schulz’s elusive and elliptical novella (with other Schulz stories stirred into the mix) through Has’s own familiar obsessions. Like most Has protagonists, Józef (Jan Nowicki) is trying to access the past, in this case by visiting his father (Marek Kondrat) in a sanatorium that turns out to be a portal to a world based as much on Józef’s fears and long-suppressed memories as it is on objective reality. Stylistically, the film recalls Orson Welles at his most florid, with Jerzy Maksymiuk’s atonal score brilliantly integrated into the overall texture.
An opulently strange and hallucinatory masterpiece that filters Bruno Schulz’s elusive and elliptical novella (with other Schulz stories stirred into the mix) through Has’s own familiar obsessions. Like most Has protagonists, Józef (Jan Nowicki) is trying to access the past, in this case by visiting his father (Marek Kondrat) in a sanatorium that turns out to be a portal to a world based as much on Józef’s fears and long-suppressed memories as it is on objective reality. Stylistically, the film recalls Orson Welles at his most florid, with Jerzy Maksymiuk’s atonal score brilliantly integrated into the overall texture.
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06:30 pm
Fri, 25 Apr 2025
Cinema 1
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