Capital Celluloid 2019 - Day 119: Mon Apr 29

Closely Observed Trains (Menzel, 1966): Close-Up Cinema, 8.15pm


This screening is part of the Czechoslovak New Wave season at Close-Up Cinema. You can find all the details of the season here.

Chicago Reader review:
Director Jiri Menzel's 1966 film of a Czechoslovakian youth (Vaclav Neckar) and his amorous and military adventures during World War II. It recalls the work of Milos Forman in its elliptically funny yet tender observation of the quirks of humanity. Some uproarious scenes combine with marvelously perceptive observations of both everyday behavior and the process of a boy's maturation.
Dan Druker

Here (and above) is the trailer.

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