The Cinefamily (Venue Partner)
611 N Fairfax Avenue
323.655.2510
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Round-up
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Saturday Mar 27, 2010 (7:30–9:30pm)
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$10
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A gripping parable of power and rebellion drawn from the pages of Hungary’s tumultuous history, The Round-Up is perhaps the most timeless and universal of director Miklos Jancso's films of the '60s and '70s. Set in a prison camp on the vast, desolate Hungarian steppe, the film chronicles the oppressive techniques of the Austrian military as they torture, humiliate and turn their captives, a downtrodden mob of peasants and revolutionaries, against one another. The film's moral ambiguity and dispassionate depiction of suffering invokes not only the Communist regime of the film's era, but the Abu Ghraib prison scandal as well. Though the film hints at the hardcore formalism of Jancso's later works, The Round-Up strikes a delicate balance between experimentation and narrative intrigue; Jancso's dazzling widescreen cinematography and precise arrangement of bodies in space never overwhelm the urgent, focused storytelling that propels this classic of political cinema.
Dir. Miklós Jancsó, 1965, 35mm, 95 min.
