episodes in Hungarian revolutionary struggle.
Even though more recendy Jancso hes been making films ia the West on other subjects, you migAL: WORECWNEM OE at the Prince Charles pened a few years ago, quickly passed from showing prestige art productions (like Peter Breok's King Lear) to a blockbusler run of that prestige pornographic The answer can apparently be und on the advertising placan side the cinema: " voyeur's eyeful" (aily Telegraph); "Erotitrecht called piece sone af the poes criticism*: "A tilm modern which is to imography what caviare is t0 a ake-away hamhurger' (Austro Jon't be put off. The film is 1 eply political one. lt appear rotle (hut definitely not porn graphic) because it uses liberarian means to make a critique af bttam pole. Bar incea that Jancec has made own, the critics are either too stupid to see, or else casily able to discuise, its political impact.
Nis mih es ch cosil thr ha le this film which could not cen dode any other way.
Over the opening pre-titie se euePoe a voice PiNanis that no one really knows whor happened or Maverling, when the Austrian rowg, pringe apparentty com Whar was the buckground? Ser wal scandal? Oppotition to the Emberor? Such ewwit the wwe contimues, are the siuff from IT IS EXCELLENT that the Tirst which legends are made, legends which furn private vicer into public virtues loaded spectacular, Hoe u e om tie pit.
title sequence 1o expect something quite differens bere.
NAKED PRINCE see the prancing naked through the gar drace e woman, not his wile. dens, as a band plays, as he the and as his old childhood nurse ks him off, what emerges 1 image df lht il00 a0d carourage as a group of sexua: libertarians united in hatred of the Emperor's autocratic rule.
Ae tne ponce taler capeun secause of the Emperor's dog mas and the stale proverbs he has for everything CTA ET1 religion every das they de physical and spiritual exerciics to midst of its deliberately idealined and cinematically utterly beaatlful display of erotic foilase, concerns tne planaing and exccucon of a major scandal by the prince and his entourage invalving orher members of the conspiracy an a comviction ihe autocracy you can asly ase the imosr erorssive megr And, moreoner, thar tercens is In defence - precioue Iittle if the reviow is good for the healih" (es one of the characters deciares J.
The circus of truth is among us', says another, troop arrives to entertain gathering nobility. And in spice of elemsents in the film wirich some viewers will find distasteful LR uCh HOHLEuuUu ble, the question which it is bri Hantly designed to evoke in us invoking the invous spitit of May 1968, is simpls: What realt counts as the cireus of truth?' PRESTIGE PIECE emotely raised by another p showing Tules, by the Polish directo The desth scene from Private Vices, Publie Virtuas as'a cireus voveuristic and sexist way.
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working, France. Here you should not be fooled bu terorts that the him ertertaining. texplores the nadure of feminine talooe. It does so in a totalty TPATTPILA Ironically it could have been a good nim suce u does mansee LanSiISI SSIld NOLNGI devotionul subser vienpe to the sexual and social OL WOITEIU ALINEIH trouble is char it delights in par traving this subservience insiend Or Crncing 1e 30 any (wa)
The diffiraity in that films like dureenus 1o th mare movier which ao one any grocesses ar work (see Gareth longer helieves in, atshough nhey can still often de esormonstr REEEUNCE BSTHEUYAUprapfy is tactile. Uf you're it man it cun give you e hend-on even COnSCIONS HTM ond i know thar it aiso atars some somen on as well whie true Proreum m the Diner MOng makes yow think feelingly alwavs a posilive process. raphy Borosczyk-atyle iS Eve more dangerous still, because it is given a vençer of respectability by its artisitic surface. Whar kind of conscious revolutionary strategy li needed against this, Dow or Tater on, in, we must admit, still a completely unanswered question, MICHAFECHANAN
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Private Vices, Public Virtues Is directed by the Hungarian Miklos Jansco - a major figure In world cinema, the director of a series of coolly allegorical anti-Stalinist epics mostly concemed with historical