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A thoroughly original, delightful comedy with serious undertones, this film is based upon the writings of a famous Hungarian journalist, Frigyes Karinthy. Karinthy, who, in his later years, suddenly became afflicted with a brain tumor, wrote a humorous novel about his thoughts during his illness. A Journey Around My Skull is not only a description of the illness and the great medical adventure of the writer, a strange, constantly unbalanced manner of life, but blends in several characteristics of Karinthy’s earlier works. The writer (played by Latinovits, who won the Best Actor Award at the recent San Sebastian Film Festival for his role here) is placed in pre-war Budapest, during the 1930s, and, while seated in his favorite cafe one day, he hears the roaring of trains. The recurrence of this sound is soon diagnosed as a brain tumor. He then travels to Stockholm for an operation and, while under local anaesthesia, the imaginative qualities of his mind, evocations of Karinthy’s flights of humorous fancy, take over the narrative. Everything is enlivened by rich, baroque escapades in which Karinthy’s personality breaks into several characters, including a sarcastic, bewigged aristocrat (called the Marquis), who comments upon the writer’s shortcomings. There are Felliniesque circus scenes, a phantasmagoric set with music hall interludes, a toy airplane ride, amusing flashbacks to childhood, allusions to Mussolini and Hitler—all the grab-bag flourishes of an artistic reverie, an imagination fluctuating between ecstasies and the intimation of doom. The excitements in A Journey Around My Skull are worth experiencing—it is experimental cinema at its best, a clever amalgam of wit and philosophical sardonicism that keeps an artist’s brain flourishing.

A.Journey.Around.My.Skull.1970.1080p.FMIO.WEB-DL.AAC.2.0.H264-WiTCHCRAFT.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 17 min
Size: 	2.62 GiB
Video
Codec: 	h264
Resolution: 	1920x1080 
Aspect ratio:  	16:9
Frame rate: 	25.000 fps
Bit rate: 	4 699 kb/s
BPP: 	0.091
Audio
#1:  	Hungarian 2.0ch AAC LC @ 128 kb/s (Hungarian / AAC / 2.0 / 48 kHz / 128 kbps)

https://nitro.download/view/2818429B778CB28/A.Journey.Around.My.Skull.1970.1080p.FMIO.WEB-DL.AAC.2.0.H264-WiTCHCRAFT.mkv

Language(s):Hungarian
Subtitles:English, Hungarian (SDH)

The post György Révész – Utazás a koponyám körül AKA Trip Around My Cranium (1970) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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Adapted from the short stories of Gyula Krúdy, a beloved Proustian author of the Magyars, Szindbád is an autumnal, reflective, and poetic film set during fin de siècle Hungary, and centers on a dying libertine’s thoughts and memories. Although named after the character in One Thousand and One Nights, Szindbad is more of a wilting Casanova. A womanizer and a gourmand, he both regrets and revels in his past pursuits of the flesh and stomach. Counter to the long shot, long take aesthetic that’s the default mode for European art cinema then and now, Huszárik—a graphic artist and painter as well—opts for montage editing. Haptic inserts, rich in sensuality and eroticism, of water droplets, globules of food oil, and blooming flowers, are counterpoised with the film’s melancholic tone channeled through Szindbád. A life lived purely for pleasure never seemed so gloomily romantic.

1.98GB | 1 h 34 min | 1024×554 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/D1B4D77923BC788/Szindbad.mkv

Language:Hungarian
Subtitles:English, Greek

The post Zoltán Huszárik – Szindbád AKA Sinbad (1971) first appeared on Cinema of the World.