Monday Morning Foreign-Region DVD Report: "The Round-Up"

Welcome to the world of Miklos Jancso’s 1966 film—a 19^th-century Hungarian pris­on camp. Look famil­i­ar? In my report for The Auteurs’ Notebook, I take a slight plus-ca-change approach. This is one of the most strik­ing of Jancso’s always strik­ing pic­tures, as simple (but not as plain) as death, and brim­ming with dark irony. Check out my mus­ings here.