24. WIOSNA FILMOW (24TH FILM SPRING FESTIVAL)
The festival is starting shortly and I've had a chance to preview:
AU REVOIR LA-HAUT (SEE YOU UP THERE)
Watchable. Based on a similar concept as "Frantz": taking up a deceased soldier's identity so it feels like a repetition, especially that it's shown in predominantly brown hues. Additionally one of the main protagonists is an artist which makes things weird or partly colourised interchangeably. The intrigue-focused plot rewards you storywise.
CINEMA ITALIA OGGI 2018
The Italian cinema screening started two nights ago.
MADE IN ITALY
Watchable. Made by Luciano Ligabue so features plenty of his songs which provide a great soundtrack. The ear-catching music and beautiful cityskapes are contrasted with a constant crisis both in the protagonists' relationship and an economic one: unemployment, demonstrations, an 8 months' wait for a scan on national healthcare. Tiring to watch.
The female lead, Kasia Smutniak, asked about her Italian and living in Italy, said she was "like cockroaches" since "nothing will kill her, she'll adjust to anything."
9. PRZEGLAD NOWEGO KINA FRANCUSKIEGO (THE 9TH NEW FRENCH CINEMA SCREENING)
Going to start this month too.
BARBARA
Walked out. Old-fashioned and on the philosophical side. About day-to-day work of some former local French singer/actress. Presented French-way: meaningless, accidental excerpts from her life, just the daily grind. Felt like watching paint dry.
PITBULL. OSTATNI PIES (PITBULL. THE LAST DOG)
Recommended this time. You have to watch carefully to get the whole plot. But what a heist it is! And the other intrigues! Very Vega-like, hard to recognise Pasikowski's direction. You don't know who-done-it till the very end of each subplot. Distinctive characters, extremely well acted, especially by Doda, Marcin Dorocinski, Cezary Pazura and the cameo of Zbigniew Zamachowski as homeless Gawelek. With strong and spot-on one-liners.
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