This movie is crazy. I mean it.
The Hourglass Sanatorium is a 1973 Surrealist Polish film directed by Wojciech Jerzy Has, who is known for very strange and fucked up short films that have no basis in reality. Somehow he got people to finance these art films in a big way.. this movie is surprisingly good quality. There is a theme of random topless women with open shirts in almost anything he does, which is fine by me. I'm not entirely sure how this movie got made, or why, but it's clearly a work of art on the highest level.
This movie poster fucks
The movie moves scenes like your mind moves into dreams. Between cuts there are ferns and ivy growing, tombstones sticking out of walls. Alternate reality and time warps start to make you wonder what exactly what is real, and what is not. The film does have haunting and strikingly detailed visuals for a movie from that time. Scenes open up like paintings, then our character interacts with those paintings like they have been frozen and waiting for him, and these scenes switch very rapidly from different parts of landscape, to sprawling mansions and castles, to underground clockwork graveyards. The characters that interact with him are all very temporary to the actual theme, and just come in and out as he thinks of them, for seemingly no reason at all. Nothing moves the story along at all, except pure wanderlust and curiosity.
This is the most normal scene of the movie
The main character interacting with random scenes
These are toys, not people
