New Movies: Connoisseur of Chaos

"I belong to the generation of Hungarian film directors for whom it was perhaps the hardest to find the way to an artistic self-expression." So admits Miklos Jancso, one of the oldest and youngest film makers in Hungary. Old, because at 47 he is a political aeon away from the newly defiant East European youth. Young, because his reputation is only now emerging from the guarded borders of his homeland.

Though The Round Up is Jancso's fifth feature, it was preceded in America by his sixth, The Red and the White.

(TIME, Sept....

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