Welcome to the world of Miklos Jancso’s 1966 film—a 19th-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.
