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Arrow Films
Silence And Cry
An elliptical, claustrophobic drama shot in the brilliant, breathtaking long takes that are Jancsó s trademark, Silence and Cry is set after the fall of the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic of 1919. A young Red soldier, fleeing the anti-Communist manhunt, takes refuge at the isolated farm of a peasant family, who are already under police scrutiny for being politically suspect... Working on a more intimate canvas, following the epic The Round-Up and The Red and the White (of which this film forms the final part of an unofficial trilogy ) Hungarian master Jancsó's film is still very much concerned with the terrible, tyrannical impact of power, politics and history.
Special Features
- Silence and Cry (1968) presented from a brand new 2K restoration of the film by the
- Hungarian Digital Archive and Film Institute, supervised by the film's cinematographer
- János Kende.
- Original Hungarian soundtrack in Dual Mono 24-bit LPCM audio
- Booklet featuring a new essay on the film by critic and film historian Tony Rayns
- New and improved English subtitle translation.
- World premiere on Blu-ray
- Second Run
- 74 minutes
- Miklós Jancsó
- 15
- English
- 2018
- Hungarian
- 1
- 2
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Arrow Films
Silence And Cry
An elliptical, claustrophobic drama shot in the brilliant, breathtaking long takes that are Jancsó s trademark, Silence and Cry is set after the fall of the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic of 1919. A young Red soldier, fleeing the anti-Communist manhunt, takes refuge at the isolated farm of a peasant family, who are already under police scrutiny for being politically suspect... Working on a more intimate canvas, following the epic The Round-Up and The Red and the White (of which this film forms the final part of an unofficial trilogy ) Hungarian master Jancsó's film is still very much concerned with the terrible, tyrannical impact of power, politics and history.
Special Features
- Silence and Cry (1968) presented from a brand new 2K restoration of the film by the
- Hungarian Digital Archive and Film Institute, supervised by the film's cinematographer
- János Kende.
- Original Hungarian soundtrack in Dual Mono 24-bit LPCM audio
- Booklet featuring a new essay on the film by critic and film historian Tony Rayns
- New and improved English subtitle translation.
- World premiere on Blu-ray
- Second Run
- 74 minutes
- Miklós Jancsó
- 15
- English
- 2018
- Hungarian
- 1
- 2
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Absolutely Mind-Boggling Art Cinema
This was my first Hungarian film (and so my first time watching anything from Miklós Jancsó). I wasn't totally sure what to expect, but I've been loving the Eastern European movies I've discovered the last couple years - and honestly, I thought Silence and Cry was incredible! I don't think I've ever seen anything exactly like this movie. It's deceptively minimalistic on the surface, utilizing a small cast of characters and a few specific locations, but it's a heavy movie in content, and highly, highly stylized in its approach to filmmaking and storytelling. Almost exclusively working in long(er) takes, jump cuts, and kinetic cinematography capturing precisely-choreographed framing and composition, Silence and Cry totally subverts most of the visual grammar and storytelling sensibilities I've come across before. It's impressionistic in the way it paints character intentions and plot dynamics, but also highly expressionistic in the way it utilizes production design and performances to draw out every ounce of emotion and thematic significance from every frame. Even running at 77 minutes, the nature of the cinematography and editing makes this a not-so-breezy film, but Miklós Jancsó really crafted a fascinating, engaging experience that had me on the edge of my seat the entire time. This was a movie that plays with the way the viewer understands narrative and visuals, and I could feel Silence and Cry etching a bigger picture with each scene that went by, culminating in an intriguing, elliptical portrait of human terror in the face of fascism.
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