Despite the historical importance of the subject matter, Wadja’s personal film is surprisingly uninvolving for long stretches.
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Despite the historical importance of the subject matter, Wadja’s personal film is surprisingly uninvolving for long stretches.
Wajda’s first feature is a modest story of sorrow and youth resistance in Nazi-occupied Warsaw, promising great things to come for one of Poland’s greatest filmmakers.
This late-career effort by the Polish master feels tonally odd, but it gives a broad and largely engaging look at Poland’s most important figure during the Solidarity movement of the 1980s that sparked the decline of Soviet communist rule.