Splat!FilmFest – Fassbinder + Borowczyk
A female love melodrama was set in a masculine, gay world, and in the background the intrigue of a masked murderer killing subsequent actors was placed.
A female love melodrama was set in a masculine, gay world, and in the background the intrigue of a masked murderer killing subsequent actors was placed.
Sergei Dvortsevoy’s Ajka is a movie that almost completely reduces the distance between the viewer, camera and its heroine. This closeness, shots from behind, stubbornly following after Ajka (Jolanta Dylewska’s camerawork) and the concentration of more and more obstacles on her path can be associated on the one hand with the poetics of movies filmed in one mastershot, and on the other hand with raw film realism.
Diamantino is definitely one of the bizarre gems shown at this year’s Warsaw Film Festival. The Portuguese film is viewed a bit like a collage of YouTube videos, modified additionally by a talented online artist.
I doubt if we have a second Polish director who can talk about indigenous problems on a global level, i.e. not only for Poles (as Wajda did, whose Polish romanticism – although he could enjoy being outside the country – was warmly welcomed but not often understood abroad), but also for, say, universalized audience.