It is narrated from the time of the Napoleonic Wars, and depicts events several. The restoration was originally begun by Grateful Dead lead singer Jerry Garcia before his death in 1995. The Manuscript Found in Saragossa ( French: Manuscrit trouv Saragosse also known in English as The Saragossa Manuscript) is a frame-tale novel written in French at the turn of 18th and 19th centuries by the Polish author Count Jan Potocki (17611815). The full-length version has been brought back in re-release by producers Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese. This was cut by nearly an hour for its original subtitled English language release in 1965. The version seen here is the restored 175-minute version. Has’s direction is often pedestrian – one can see why it was substantially cut for English release – nevertheless it is an enjoyable film. The film is certainly overlong and Wojciech J.
The result eventually emerges as pleasing and rather amusing. Count Jan Potocki (1761-1815) was a Polish nobleman who fought at sea as a member of the Knights of Malta, traveled to Mongolia and carefully recorded what. The Saragossa Manuscript is a film that you cannot really enjoy in terms of linear narrative but makes sense more as an elliptical mandala of stories. The Manuscript Found in Saragossa, the French-written book by count Jan Potocki and the eponymous adaptation by Wojciech J. The tapestry does eventually begin to knit together as we see the various strange events – a voice seemingly calling from Heaven, a strange face at the window – all coming to be explained in subsequent stories. (Although in a moment of witty meta-fictionality, the characters within the stories confess that they too are having difficulty following the digressions – but are told to sit back as it will all make sense eventually).
The story for a long time (the film is nearly three hours in length) sinks into a morass of digressions and tales within tales, which end up becoming so labyrinthine as to leave one completely lost by the time the film returns to the original tale. The film is a layered tapestry of tall tales of strange and bizarre events (although actual fantastic content is fairly minimal). It is based on a classic text originally published in Poland in 1804, one that has gone through a number of revisions and additions since. The Saragossa Manuscript is a film that has built up a cult reputation, largely through its obscurity.
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