October 16, 2019
THE MIRACLE (1991)
DescriptionDescription Neil Jordan's The Miracle is a beguiling yarn set in a seaside Irish resort. Told by Jimmy (Niall Byrne), a wet-behind-the-ears teen, The Miracle is a coming-of-age story spiked with a heavy dose of family history. Like Jordan's Mona Lisa, this is essentially a toadand- princess love story, but this time it's laced with...
October 16, 2019
A MAN IS NOT A BIRD (COVEK NIJE TICA)
DescriptionDescription In a bleak industrial town in Slovenia, a visiting engineer (Janez Vrhovec) has an affair with a young and carefree hairdresser (Milena Dravic), which does not prevent her making love to a truck driver (Boris Dvornik) she had known previously. With its guiltless eroticism, vertiginous images from hand-held cameras, and satiric attitude to authority,...
October 16, 2019
MAN OF IRON (CZLOWIEK Z ZELAZA)
DescriptionDescription Andrzej Wajda's Man of Iron is more than a film-it's an event, qualified to rank as the best 'Film of the Year" by virtue of its theme and the sheer documentation of a news story that made headlines the world over. Man of Iron features the passion and determination of Tomczyk (Jerzy Radziwilowicz), one...
October 16, 2019
BECK
DescriptionDescription Beck is the intriguing Dutch adaptation of "The Locked Room", a crime mystery by Sweden's acclaimed writing team Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo. featuring their series· detective Martin Beck (Jan Decleir). who was also featured in the American film The Laughing Policeman. Beck is a police officer who. upon recovering from a near-fatal injury,...
October 16, 2019
THE BIRCH WOOD (BRZEZINA)
DescriptionDescription In The Birch wood Wajda frees his characters from the weight of historical and social determinism and confronts them with their own individual destinies. The story is misleadingly simple, but deals with basic human emotio.n s and anxieties; it is a story of everyman. After a few years spent in Switzerland s sanitoriums, the...
