Sanatorium pod klepsydra

Sanatorium pod klepsydra

1973
Drama, Fantasy
2h 4m
Set in pre- World War II era. A young man is on a strange train to see his dying father in a sanatorium. But the place is going to ruin and recalls a lot of memories from the past. He is beset by soldiers from the past, colonial black mercenaries, girls from his early life, and his parents. It is an interior adventure, with unusual atmospheric flair and extraordinary sets. (imdb)
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Sanatorium pod klepsydra

1973
Drama, Fantasy
2h 4m
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Rated 09 Jul 2020
95
97th
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.
Rated 14 Aug 2015
83
72nd
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.
Rated 17 Jun 2008
50
42nd
Not nearly as weird or unsettling as it's cracked up to be. More whimsical than dark.
Rated 09 Apr 2016
80
92nd
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.
Rated 26 Aug 2017
40
14th
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.
Rated 12 Apr 2018
100
94th
I knew this was getting a perfect score after just 6 minutes.
Rated 22 Apr 2016
84
84th
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.
Rated 13 Dec 2008
88
78th
One of the strangest things I've seen in some time, and I loved it.
Rated 03 Sep 2012
15
4th
I couldn't get anywhere with this.
Rated 21 Jun 2009
3
74th
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.
Rated 27 Nov 2011
4
55th
I have no idea.
Rated 11 Feb 2013
75
84th
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.
Rated 13 Nov 2015
7
48th
Needs a rewatch.
Rated 28 Jul 2013
24
0th
Incredible set's nothing more.
Rated 20 Jun 2014
89
94th
Beautiful and mesmerizing. Best representation of a dream I've ever seen. Not for everyone though.
Rated 28 Sep 2010
87
86th
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.
Rated 23 Dec 2016
74
67th
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.
Rated 31 May 2013
85
96th
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.
Rated 17 Oct 2014
90
92nd
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.
Rated 03 Feb 2008
86
90th
lunatic.
Rated 12 Apr 2016
94
99th
35. İstanbul Film Festivali - Rexx.
Rated 12 Jun 2018
30
12th
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.
Rated 22 Nov 2018
94
93rd
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.
Rated 18 Jan 2020
80
79th
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.
Rated 27 Aug 2020
100
94th
Esta pelicula entra a mi top 10 de todos los tiempos
Rated 13 Mar 2022
77
52nd
12.16 Hobbit
Rated 07 Jul 2022
92
97th
Büyüleyici bir deneyim. Başka birisinin rüyasında gezinmek gibi. Kitaptan uyarlandığını ve okuyamayacağımı bilmek üzücü. Keşke baskısı olsa ve okuma imkanım olsaydı.
Rated 18 Jul 2023
57
59th
Incredible imagery and evocative of those dreams that seem to go on forever, but rather inaccessible.
Rated 20 Feb 2024
83
80th
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).

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