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‘SNOWDROP FESTIVAL’
Czechoslovakia, 1983, 90 minutes 5:15 p.m. This is the best film of Jiri Menzel to reach the United States since his Oscar-winning “Closely Watched Trains.” A sly, bucolic comedy that turns upon a boar hunt, it celebrates the joys of sloth and gluttony (and has fun with masculine foibles along the way). The restrictive conditions under which Menzel has been working for more than 15 years have only sharpened his observation of human nature and life’s absurdities.
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