Showing posts with label films 1966. Show all posts
Showing posts with label films 1966. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 17, 2026

Closely Observed Trains (1966): review: 5 /10

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Staff at a small railway station are sex-obsessed. A junior staff member is encouraged to pursue sex. 

Inexperienced and impotent he takes his life in despair. This takes place against the back-drop of World War Two German occupation and a plot to blow up a munitions train.

The film is highly stylised. Well made but insensate, often boring and claustrophobic, it  leaves feeling one short changed, perhaps even somewhat morally revolted.