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than the elaborate cycles and epicycles of the Jancsó world, where everybody — open fields notwithstanding — is imprisoned within rigid limits of the director's rage for abstract patterns."
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as "crystal clear and involving: looking for a language in , he found it here and uses it with dazzling precision." Writing for the
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centers around a small peasants' revolt in 1890. It draws inspiration from the
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