2025
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Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
2025
5.5
10.5K
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A man journeys by rail to a nameless sanatorium where his father has recently died. Once there, time loses its linearity and he finds himself in a world that appears both strange and strangely familiar.
Countries:
GB
Languages:
Polish, English
Runtime:
1hrs 16min
Status:
Released
Release date:
2025-04-11
Release format:
Theater
That was hard to watch. The visual style is not particularly pleasant, and too often blurry and dark.
There probably is a kind of story, seeing it's cut in different parts with titles that suggest something is happening, but it was impossible to discern any specific action or progression during the whole thing. The experimental effects, like looping the same 3 seconds 10 times in a raw, (that happened a lot), make sit even more unbearable.
Some sequences are filmed, most are animation, and they're separate. It's pretty hard to see a link between the characters in the two worlds.
One thing, it's clear that this required a lot of work, and it seems the base material is already weird and probably very hard to adapt. But the result is boring to death.