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2017/18 Season

CLOSELY OBSERVED TRAINS

Czechoslovakia 1966 (X) 93 minutes Directed by Jirí Menzel

Ipswich Film Theatre - 4 December 2017 - 7.30pm Winner of the Foreign Language Oscar in 1968, Menzel’s gentle tale is a perennial favourite and undoubtedly the most accessible of the films to emerge from the so-called Prague spring. It concerns a young railway employee during the Occupation who has his first, bitter-sweet, sexual experience. The presentation begins with the short film Premature (2013). AUDIENCE COMMENTS: Subtle, very funny on so many levels and outstanding photography; A bit racey for 1966; European cinema at its best; Pondorous. Lacked flow. Didn’t know what to make of it. Lacked finesse; This train passed me by completely.

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