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WOJNA ZE SMOGIEM (SMOG WARS)
Watchable. I obsessively keep checking smog sensor readings year-round so the topic is of great interest to me. But then the main question is: what's new? Hardly anything. Well, maybe the grim prospect of Polish people buying cheap cars abroad if old types become banned for environmental reasons in the rest of Europe. And the fact we have twice as many cars as Berlin does. We lag a few decades behind the West. The rest is an engaging reminder of the problem I've read, watched and discussed extensively over the last few years. Film-wise, blackout curtains used in editing quite a few times are too long at best, if needed at all.
At least the screening was loud and clear, with big subtitles on black background.
MY, NAROD (WE, THE PEOPLE)
Watchable. The Polish title means: "We, the People" - just like in the US constitution preamble and it comes from Lech Walesa's historic address to the Congress. The opening of his speech was invented by... a 7 year old Polish girl growing up in the US, Marta Kalabinski. Apart from such trivia, the documentary presents the events which ended up in overthrowing communism - first in Poland, then in the rest of Europe. You realise how great a man Walesa is, or was at his time, and that nearly a decade of citizens' protests in Poland, the Soviet Union loosening the grip, American support and the Polish communist party's internal disagreements were needed for it to happen - a much broader process than I imagined. The American perspective is fascinating. Still, the developments of 30 years ago make it just one of a number of historic films. I focused on my own mind making comparisons to women's protests now.
Also loud and clear but with small white (English) subtitles.
COPPER NOTES OF A DREAM
Switched off. Children's daily life interactions, slow pace, discussions about organizing an amateurish concert - nothing to glue you to the screen. Aleppo location doesn't save the film.
Again, barely legible subtitles. But the sound quality was fine.
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