The best known film from Czech helmer Zbynek Brynych is nominally focused on its Holocaust story about a Jewish doctor, forbidden to practice, who is forced by his conscience to use his old skills to save an injured patriot. But with little care for WWII period detail and communist block housing used as a setting for most of the story’s action, the sub-textual criticism of the Soviet dominated government & society then in place leapfrogs into first position. What should be a fascinating look at the interchangeability of extremes on the political left & right, is compromised by a technique that is by turns obfuscating & irritating. And too many set-ups that are consistently a little too tight & a little too low leave you with a crick in your neck. A disappointment.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment