One of Zanussi’s most radical and playful offerings as his protagonist, a physicist, attempts to put faith in science to explain human existence and matters of life and death.
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One of Zanussi’s most radical and playful offerings as his protagonist, a physicist, attempts to put faith in science to explain human existence and matters of life and death.
One of the most chillingly unique Holocaust films in decades, Glazer’s cold and calculated take on human complicity in enabling atrocities is told from the perspective of a high-ranking Nazi officer raising his family in a luxurious compound built right next to a concentration camp in Auschwitz.
A young Polish man living with his dying mother harbours dreams of scaling the Himalayas but has to face rampant corruption at his workplace in Zanussi’s character study of a person caught in the two worlds of morality and mortality.
Holland’s finest work in a while and one that incurred the wrath of the Polish government, this politically sharp and urgent piece about refugees that get pushed about at the border between Poland and Belarus is complex and shot soberingly in black-and-white.
Kieslowski’s often overlooked middle installment of the famed trilogy may be one of his most mischievous if perverse films as a downtrodden, recently divorced Polish man plans an elaborate revenge plot against his French ex-wife.
Polish master Zanussi’s early work is such a uniquely irresistible and besetting experience, about a man who returns to his ancestral home after many years only to find that his family is still as dysfunctional.
A saintly donkey’s journey on acid, but Skolimowski’s elusive, fragmentary work is also earthy, as he gives us a hallucinatory, at times visually dazzling, piece that pays obvious homage to Bresson’s much sparer and more spiritual ‘Au Hasard Balthazar’.
This could very well be the first-ever Holocaust drama, about a group of resilient women who must attempt to survive during the last months of the war, startlingly shot on location at Auschwitz, with many cast and crew who survived the concentration camps.
Skolimowski’s raw debut feature is like a Polish ‘Breathless’, though much less interesting and with little to really engage viewers.
Interesting and meditative in its treatment of the metaphysical in the real world, this Polish work, however, is vague about what it wants to say as a mysterious Ukrainian massage therapist works his charm on a gated community of oddball residents.