MARYJA. MATKA PAPIEZA
Watchable. The Saint Mary cult, Fatima's last revelation, eschatology, but most of all Karol Wojtyła's family story and his formative years are the subject of this documentary. Lots of period photographs and news recordings prove the film is well documented. But archive footage is presented in a square with kind of an echo of the picture in red - as if the middle square wasn't grainy enough. Luckily it's compensated by modern shots of the places discussed and of experts. As usual in religious documentaries the commentary is rich in detail boring to outsiders.
Reviewed from the distributor's screener, cinematic reception might differ.
POSLANI
Watchable. While Michał or Daniel's revelation and Daniel's nightmare slumbers could be dismissed as a deeply religious person's hallucination, other signs they experience are harder to ignore. Aneta's story is different. The woman chose her path consciously. As the stories intertwined, my rescue dog suddenly started to listen attentively: "why does God subject us to suffering? "we have free will". That got me thinking - about dogs and about humans. Then I was deeply moved when the elderly pilgrim was telling how he had knelt down in front of the man who had been insulting him and the insulting man had knelt back. The film is also a chance to learn who the legendary priest Popiełuszko was. Social phenomena like men praying in public in the street and how the men's rosary spread to the rest of the world are explained. Unfortunately it's filled with not-always-interesting details - my guess is a better cut would improve this otherwise inspiring documentary about how unusual approaches to faith become the norm, about how to deal with secular criticism and how to live your own life - the way God wants you to.
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