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...THING YOU'D least expect from any Soviet-bloc film industry, much less Poland's is an elegant celebration of magic. Wojciech Haas's The Saragossa Manuscript recounts the picaresque adventures of a captain of the Walloon Guards who crosses the Sierra Morena Mountains during the Spanish Inquisition. In so doing, Haas convinces us that we need transcendent poetry to arrive at the ideals we live by. When we want to escape or transform history, as in the era which Haas presents to us, spiritualism proves a better source of values than social traditions and conventions...
...relevant encasement. From the outset, we are clued to think that there are reasons not only for the lessons in each fable, but for the mode and source of the exposition. The entire film is a flash-back, catalyzed when two soldiers in an unexplained war stumble over a manuscript and read on in the midst of battle. The words are more important than their war. And the account of Captain van Worden, the manuscript's narrator, is itself purposely convoluted...
Phantasmagoria is rarely well done in film. Certainly in America the only work which approaches it successfully is 2001--which concerns technology, not humanity. The reason The Saragossa Manuscript works is that Haas sees social reality, when bounded by hypocrisy, to be truly phantasmagorical, and perceives the special logic of dreams. The only man in the film with the same argumentative power as the cabalist is the rationalist--but he is historically inappropriate, and ineffective at protecting himself against Inquisitors...
EMERSON 105: The Sarogossn Manuscript, Fri., Sat., Sun., 8 p.m., $1.50 HARVARD EPWORTH CHURCH: George Landow's "Remedial Reading Comprehension" and Stan Brakhage's "Dog Star Man," tonight...
Married. Christy Brown, 40, Irish novelist, poet and painter who, although almost totally paralyzed since birth by cerebral palsy, wrote a bestselling autobiographical book about family life in a Dublin slum (Down All the Days), typing the manuscript with the toes of his left foot; and Mary Carr, 27, dental receptionist; he for the first time, she for the second; in Dublin...