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Labyrinth (1991)
Director: Jaromil Jires
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
This unclassifiable oddity is not a movie about Franz Kafka, how his Jewish-Czech heritage (pogroms, the ghetto, the Golem) worked on his imagination, or how the bureaucracy of irrational persecution which he postulated surfaced monstrously in the real world after his death. Instead, it's about a director (Schell) who aspires to make a movie which explores all those things, but who is unable to find a suitable cinematic form, and finally abandons the project. Thus, it's a scrapbook of random observations, a series of tentative drafts, a movie about its own inadequacies, a 90-min admission of failure. Ruefully aware of Kafka's dim view of the cinema's potential, the film-makers' inability to treat the material properly has a mortifying appropriateness.Author: BBa
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- Doreen Chiaverio said...
- Posted on Jul 11 2009 03:33 5 stars. The film is great. Where can I foind one, to watch again?
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- Doreen Chiaverio said...
- Posted on Jul 11 2009 03:32 ***** frive star. Where can I find the film, to watch again?
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Cast & crew
Director: Jaromil Jires
Producer: Karel Dirka
Cast: Maximilian Schell, Christopher Chaplin, Milos Kopecky, Vida Neuwirth, Jirí Krejcik, Dita Bochnickova, Martin Huba full cast
Duration: 90 mins
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