Closely Watched Trains (1966)
Directed by Jiří Menzel
At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to liberate himself from his virginity. Oblivious to the war and the resistance that surrounds him, this young man embarks on a journey of sexual awakening and self-discovery, encountering a universe of frustration, eroticism, and adventure within his sleepy backwater depot.
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What critics compared Closely Watched Trains to
Clutching his first vacuum-wrapped Blu-ray off the shelf in the hallowed ground of Criterion’s Closet Picks library, Ari Aster holds 1966’s Closely Watched Trains up for the camera, and announces: “This and Beau have in common that they are about a man who really needs to come.”