DOCS AGAINST GRAVITY
The festival contents has been announced. There'll be plenty of different sections. A curious film will be "Grace Jones" by Sophie Fiennes who previously co-worked with Slavoj Žižek on "The Pervert's Guide to Ideology". I'm personally most looking forward to "Red Chapel" though - on North Korea. And to VR - these films are going to be in competition this year. One of documentaries to be presented at the festival will be
KSIAZE I DYBUK (THE PRINCE AND THE DYBBUK)
Watchable. "Jego ekscelencja subiekt" from 1933 is the only film by Michał Waszczykowski that I remember. Coincidentally it's one which tells about a shop assistant who's mistaken for a minister. He himself was Jewish, gay and a refugee but called himself "principe" and acted the role to the point where people thought he was an aristocrat. He became an Italian contess' sweetheart hence cutting himself off the painful wartime past when he lost both his parents. He was a movie maker who, apart from working in the factory of dreams, created the fantasy life he wanted for himself. Yes, he lied, or misled others at least, but did no harm to them and that was how he managed to elevate himself to live a dream. The story would have been more interesting if it had been told from the psychologic point of view instead of focusing on history, partly obscure. The description of his physique comes from the army register and says his nose was "wavy".
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