The Sun in a Net
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| Among the un-Socialist Realist attributes of the film was an emphasis on a variety of filmic means, for instance as in this clip, the attempt at an aesthetic (rather than content-driven) transition between scenes, and a degree of eroticism uncommon in Hollywood in the 1950s and decidedly banished from communist film studios at that time – also created in this clip through filmic means (as opposed to the story line): the location of Peťo's (Ľubo Roman) body with respect to the wavering shadow moved by the purposeful rocking of the pontoon, the low-angle shot of lying Bela (Jana Beláková), and the following close-up. Slovak and Czechoslovak filmmakers began to point to the authorities' consent to release The Sun in a Net in order to support their own demands to go farther. |
| The sequence in the clip cuts from the farm where Fajolo (see clip 1) does his "voluntary," in fact mandated, summer work and dates a fellow student volunteer after a spat with Bela, who has now hooked up with Peťo. Unknowingly, Peťo has taken her to the same fisherman's pontoon that Fajolo discovered earlier. |
The Sun in a Net review by Alex Golden.
The Sun in a Net review by Jasmine Pogue.
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