October 16, 2019
THE WEDDING (WESELE)
DescriptionDescription The most interesting and typically Polish film of the year, and perhaps Wajda's best. Rleality combines with dreams, nightmares, unrealized ambitions. The Wedding's time frame is the beginning of this century, the period of the so-called Young Poland. Vibrant with new literary and artistic trends, it was a time of exuberant symbolism, of ideas...
October 16, 2019
SWEET MOVIE
DescriptionDescription Sweet Movie is literally sweet with lovemaking in a bed of sugar and a girl being bathed in chocolate for advertising purposes But it also has an underpinning of scatology and a zany look at sensuality. Neither hard nor softcore, the Yugoslav filmmaker's first film in the West, a French-Canadian coproduction, is provocative, and...
October 16, 2019
THE SWITCHBOARD OPERATOR
DescriptionDescription "Makavejev has gone further than Godard," claimed one critic of The Switchboard Operator, which was also called by Tony Rayns "Makavejev's most interesting and concentrated treatment of his recurrent themes. A tragicomic love affair between a switchboard operator and a corporation rat-catcher starts out idyllic but turns sour under external pressures; Makavejev breaks up...
