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Has can lay claim to producing the finest ever exercise in cinematic surrealism with his hallucinatory trip through an amalgam of dreams, memories and fantasies. An indecipherable narrative is no obstacle to appreciating the awe-inspiring technical aspects of the filmmaking, with flawlessly detailed production design and unerringly brilliant camera movement consistently demonstrating a comprehensive mastery of the medium.

There's a lot of appeal in the film's fever dream insanity; a grounded surrealism that provides laughs, confusion, social commentary and interesting visuals. I was also impressed by the smooth flow of the scene transitions, the film shifts gears constantly yet it never feels abrupt. As good as the execution is, this kind of thing only holds my interest for so long, and in this case I felt the film ran out of steam a bit in the second half.

I knew this was getting a perfect score after just 6 minutes.

I can finally put a finger on what bugs me in Wojciech Has movies so much. They never take themselves seriously. It may have a nice mesmerizing moment but then it ruins it by screaming "it's just a movie" (not "it's just a dream"). The acting is a mediocre theater type one, there is nothing but feelingless monologues even when the personages talk to each other. I appreciated all the bare breasted women though, they helped me like ring buoys to get to the end of this movie.

A strange, surreal film that surely must have been an influence on directors like Terry Gilliam, The Hourglass Sanitorium is either a whimsical journey inside a seemingly ordinary man's mind, or capturing his transition while occupying that liminal state between life and death. Or perhaps it's all a dream? The film offers no solutions to the riddles it poses, but it's bizarre, dreamlike imagery is completely captivating and totally unique and the colours just pop off the screen.

Pretty strange, above all a lot of stylized imagery that appeals to the eye, but there actually seems to be a deeper meaning to all the craziness as well. Like a less frenetic Zulawski meeting a toned down Jodorowsky.

Not nearly as weird or unsettling as it's cracked up to be. More whimsical than dark.

I found this a bit weak from a narrative standpoint, or perhaps I was just too dumb to get everything it was throwing (very possible!), but what an experience. It presents as a dream, and while it doesn't always get all the details of dreaming right, it nails the logic and transitions between different parts of dreams better than any other film. The sets are amazing and it flows so perfectly that it almost feels like one take (even though there are a normal number of cuts).

Incredible imagery and evocative of those dreams that seem to go on forever, but rather inaccessible.

Büyüleyici bir deneyim. Başka birisinin rüyasında gezinmek gibi. Kitaptan uyarlandığını ve okuyamayacağımı bilmek üzücü. Keşke baskısı olsa ve okuma imkanım olsaydı.

12.16 Hobbit

Esta pelicula entra a mi top 10 de todos los tiempos

This movie has two things going very well for it. Firstly this is an absolutely amazingly beautiful movie. Secondly because of the constant movement with the encounters seamlessly flowing into each other and the protagonist unquestioning undergoing it all, it made it easier for me to also accept the lack of any conventional narrative logic and just go with the emotional flow of the journey.

Sinceramente não lembro de outro filme que tenha assimilado tanto a linguagem literária quanto esse, veja bem, não li o livro de Schulz, mas a questão aqui é a tranposição de linguagem e o que vemos na tela chega a ser mais literatura do que cinema - pelo menos um cinema que se acha possível. Isso é uma questão do Has mesmo, se você ver ele tinha feito o impossível no Manuscrito de Saragoça também. BluraRip no MakingOff.

Could not finish. Visually impressive but this viewer was unconvinced that the general air of incomprehensibility was worth the effort required to attempt to unravel its meaning.

Certainly would be a great theatre play, the setting was great and atmosphere like Matei Visniec's A Maquina Tchekhov but not a good film. Some acting was too weak and camera must show us the beauty not all 'theatre' dialogue.

So far out there that words fail me. Obviously it is visually mesmerizing. The plot is totally surreal which perhaps begins to be a flaw when i can't unravel one bit of what message is being attempted( in fact reading about the film afterwards i find one of my assumptions to be exactly opposite of what could have possibly been intended). Its so madcap throughout that when the pace slows abruptly near the end my attention fell off although it got no less crazier.

35. İstanbul Film Festivali - Rexx.

Needs a rewatch.

An everyman (Jan Nowicki) arrives at a mysterious hospital where he encounters the characters of his past, his education, and his imagination--but whether his visions are a nightmare, a surreal reality, or limbo is far from clear. What is clear is how stunning it looks; Wojciech Has' direction is brilliantly colorful and thoughtful, the cinematography is jaw-droppingly gorgeous, and the production design as nightmarishly expansive as you could wish. Often confusing, but too beautiful to dismiss.

Beautiful and mesmerizing. Best representation of a dream I've ever seen. Not for everyone though.

Incredible set's nothing more.

A very enigmatic film. My best bet is that we visit the protagonist's regrets, fantasies, childhood memories through his dreams as he is sleeping on the train which takes him to the sanatorium where his father is. Anyway the film is really something special to behold.

Strange and colorful and dreamlike adventure film. Can be disorienting, with the sequence of events often whimsical and disjointed, most things left unexplained and not allowed time to sink in, but at it best it anticipates the fantasy works of Terry Gilliam. Start with The Saragossa Manuscript, but if you dug that, I certainly recommend this.

I couldn't get anywhere with this.

I have no idea.

Very, very European film that disregards the sensibilities of your usual plot structure, geography, character actions, and archetypes in favour of investigating the psychosis in one or more persons. Like Stalker crossed with Brazil in the nightmare of a head-rush gone wrong.

One of the strangest things I've seen in some time, and I loved it.

lunatic.