Reviews of AFI Festival Movies : <i> Following are reviews for the American Film Institute Film Festival. All screenings are at the Cineplex Odeon Century Plaza Cinemas unless otherwise indicated. : </i> : TODAY
‘Agitators/Punitive Expedition’
Hungary, 1969-71, 122 minutes, 10 p.m . One of AFI Fest’s major discoveries is Dezso Magyar’s brilliant, hurtling portrayal of the abortive 1919 Hungarian rebellion--long banned in its own country. Magyar sees the past through a contemporary ‘60s prism: His young revolutionaries fulminate and rage, caught by a restless camera and slashing, propulsive editing. Shown with Magyar’s equally impressive 1971 short, “Punitive Expedition.”
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