Miklós Jancsó was a radically original and daring filmmaker, and an essential political filmmaker—but his films are extreme rarities in the U.S.
Jancsó is a radically original and daring filmmaker, and an essential political filmmaker. The six films of his in athat begins on Friday take an approach to history—and, implicitly, to current events—that at times redefines realism and, at other times, defies it.
In “Winter Wind,” the choreographic elements of Jancsó’s art are centered on attacks and interrogations—the wary maneuvers and crude aggressions of activists and border guards, while Hungarian soldiers, occupying forces, and competing militias come and go around a farmhouse and courtyard, which are sites of high-risk deceptions and summary executions.
Jancsó’s films relentlessly stage cruelty, ruthlessness, and sadism—the use of power as spectacle to cow freethinkers into submission. The sexual abuse of women is a constant of tyrannical and repressive forces, and women’s resistance to them takes heroic forms, whether it’s the nurses in “The Red and the White” or a Croatian fighter killing a pair of would-be rapists in “Winter Wind.
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