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The Hourglass SanatoriumWojciech Jerzy Has, 1973, 125 min
"An anxious man visits his ailing – perhaps deceased – father in a mysterious sanatorium that becomes a kind of dream-machine, where time and space possess a strange plasticity, and ghosts of the past and future join in a hypnotic dance. One of the great masterpieces of Seventies art cinema and the crowning expression of Has' visionary cinema, The Hourglass Sanatorium is also a remarkable example of his alternate and evocative approach to literary adaptation. Has' film is not based on the eponymous story by Bruno Schulz, but rather draws freely – yet always faithfully – from two renown books of short stories by the modernist writer in order to capture the mystical spirit, dark humor and sense of impending doom which defines the long overlooked but now revered Jewish author's stories." – Harvard Film Archive
https://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/film_programmes/2024/histoires-du-cinema/the-hourglass-sanatorium
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Close-Up Cinema, 64 Sclater Street, London, E1 6HR, United Kingdom,London, United Kingdom
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