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AKA: Sanatorium Pod Klepsydra; The Sandglass
Year: 1973
Directed by: Wojciech Has
Starring: Jan Nowicki (Jozef)
Country: Poland, European Cinema
Language: Polish (English Subtitles)
Runtime: 02:04:12
Genres: Surreal, Dolls, Time Travel
Plot – Spoilers:
Jozef is a Polish Jew visiting his dead father at a strange sanatorium where time is reversed to a period before a person’s death. The dead person remains asleep and various possibilities are explored to see if recovery is possible.
Jozef starts exploring the sanatorium and this leads to a series of surreal experiences of great visual splendor conjured from memories mostly centered around his childhood. There are questions regarding his sexuality and the ambiguity of a girl/boy he loved that pretty much remain unanswered.
The Hourglass Sanatorium is a fascinating visual experience and it’s quite likely that the whole dreamworld is being conjured up by Jozef as he lies dying somewhere. At the centre of this dreamworld are the fundamental questions:
Are you better off in a dreamworld than in reality?
Is a boring or painful – yet well-defined – reality preferable to a muddled dream?
The Hourglass Sanatorium has also been described as a representation of the decay of post-War Jews in Poland, but that’s probably an angle for those with a deep understanding of the history of Jewish society in Poland.
Elaborate production with a large cast and possibly over 300 extras. It’s a hard 2 hours to sit through. Most of the time the dialog seemed like gibberish and it was difficult to grasp any emotion for the characters. The people Josef meets through his travels are not specified (except for his mother) as someone he knows even though he obviously knows them. What I am guessing is that Josef was dead and he was time tripping through purgatory. I’ll go straight up the middle and give this one just a cunt hair over 2 and a half stars. Both “Hourglass Sanitorium” and “The Exorcist” were made the same year, if you are inclined to compare production values.
A better time tripping film about purgatory is Kurt Vonnegut’s “Slaughterhouse-Five” (1972), which follows Billy Pilgrim as he is forced to re-live his life in random order. Though “Slaughterhouse-Five” is sometimes hard to follow, you can still understand what is happening and you have an emotional attachment to the characters.
This is one of my favourite movies, a total majestic craft.
Beautiful, don’t cheat yourself by not finishing it.
usually watch a film to the end but couldnt here
Beautiful and surreal, loves the landscapes, the worn out buildings, dust and the memory capsules…but a boring film that I couldn’t keep my eyes open to, or I just have a short attention span to these kind of films ?