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The Hourglass Sanatorium Reviews

  • Kameron 2022-08-19 11:22:23

    Life is a grand death-defying journey

    The gorgeous long mirrors, the ingenious transitions, the flickering lights, these elements create a grand soul journey, non-linear narration, using movies to analyze death, to find the father to cover up this grand and dazzling Gorgeous death walk. Use visual centralism to dilute the plot, and use...

  • Reggie 2022-06-12 23:56:12

    The hourglass and knots of time

    This time, Bai Lecture brings us a film adapted from a short novel by Bruno Schultz by Polish director and neorealist master Wojci Haas. In the two-hour film, Haas constructs a dream of the protagonist Joseph in the fragmented hourglass time. From the broken Gothic columns up and down, to the gaze...

  • Beaulah 2022-06-12 22:54:00

    In the nightmare, I was controlled and released

    It is a game between man and creation and memory. If man is a whole, then memory and creation are parts. This is also the struggle between the whole and the parts. Human beings live as the cause, and memory is the effect. Going crazy for no reason, what are you looking for, what are you asking, you...

  • Jany 2022-06-12 22:52:49

    Haas' four-dimensional space

    Movie2019No.118 "The Sanatorium under the Mirror of Sandy Time" is a letter of apology written by a magnificent fantasy to his father. Unfolding in the nested structure of time, it is more mysterious and symbolic than Zaragoza. Each structure is an independent space that is related to other...

  • Bartholome 2022-06-12 22:41:15

    Take your paws away from time

    (This article was first published on the public account of the EU Film Festival)

    In 1973, Polish director Wojciech Has won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival for his Sanatorium under the Mirror of Sand Time. With its strong style, formalism and magnificent visual spectacle, it broke...

  • Hoyt 2022-06-12 17:14:09

    The soul monk on the train with fire

    It basically covers and satisfies the imagination of the labyrinth of ruins. In "Castle", a similar image flashed before my eyes. However, the snow seems to be whiter there.

    The Book of the Dead, the train with fire. Without time, it is beyond eternity.

    Like that sentence, have you heard the story of...

The Hourglass Sanatorium

Director: Wojciech Has

Language: Polish,Yiddish,Hebrew,Latin Release date: December 12, 1973