Film Screening “The Hourglass Sanatorium”
Fri 22 Jul 2016, 7 pm
Blossom Art House
From the organizer:
“The Hourglass Sanatorium” is a 1973 Polish film directed by Wojciech Jerzy Has. It is also known as “The Sandglass” in English speaking countries. The story follows a man who visits his father in a mystical sanatorium where time does not flow normally.
Joseph (Jan Nowicki) travels through a dream-like world, taking a dilapidated train to visit his dying father, Jacob, in a sanatorium. When he arrives at the hospital, he finds the entire facility is going to ruin and no one seems to be in charge or even caring for the patients. Time appears to behave in unpredictable ways, reanimating the past in an elaborate artificial caprice.
The film is an adaptation of Bruno Schulz’s story collection “Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass”. It won the Jury Prize at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival.
Duration: 119 minutes
Language: Polish
Subtitle: English
50.000VND donation is suggested at door.
For further question, please feel free to contact 0126.620.3694 (Ms. Linh)
Watch the film’s trailer here:
[vimeo width=”700″ height=”393″]https://vimeo.com/96148201[/vimeo]
Blossom Art House 94B Tran Hung Dao, Hanoi |