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Szindbad (1971, Hungary) (aka Sinbad)
In cowriter-director Zoltan Huszarik's visually-beautiful,
melancholic romantic drama (with cinematography by Sándor
Sára) - based upon the 1911 stories of Gyula Krúdy,
titled The Adventures of Sindbad:
- the celebrated pre-title credits opening -- one
and a half minutes of a rhythmic, rhapsodic, moody montage of flashback
images, mostly of nature scenes, while the main protagonist: privileged,
charming and hedonistic Szindbád (Zoltán Latinovits)
slept on the seat of his horse-drawn open carriage (he was dead
or dying)
- the impressionistic montage of subliminal images included
(some repeated):
- a flower stamen
- colored globules or drops of cooking oil floating and congealing
on water
- dead leaves frozen in ice
- floating red droplets
- green branch of tree
- the opening and blooming of a flower
- a lock or strand of blonde hair
- red glowing embers or coals of burning wood
- a spider's web
- dripping water from a wooden slatted, weathered roof
- lace resting on an antique or vintage sepia-toned portrait of a woman
- white smoke rising in a forest
- throughout the film, Szindbad reminisced and had memories
of his womanizing Casanova experiences (some regretful) in many past
love affairs in the 1920s - each of his dalliances were linked to
the earlier images
- the scenes of Szindbad's many amorous liaisons and
rendezvous, including brief erotic flashes of one exhibitionist female's
naked pulchritude in a field, while he strolled in a cemetery
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