Kinoteka 2015: ‘Eroica’ review
★★★★☆ With the fires of the Second World War still smouldering European cinema rose from the embers across the continent. At one time such...
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25 May 2015
Kinoteka 2015: ‘The Promised Land’ review
★★★★★ It has been sixty years since the release of Andrzej Wajda’s first film, Generation (1955), and in that time he has directed over...
25 May 2015
Kinoteka 2015: ‘The Last Day of Summer’ review
★★★★☆ Novelist turned filmmaker Tadeusz Konwicki excelled at crafting an atmosphere of the otherworldly on the screen. Though 1965’s Jump may be more widely...
25 May 2015
Kinoteka 2015: ‘Austeria’ review
★★★★☆ There’s a moment of cinematic perfection around forty minutes into Jerzy Kawalerowicz’s Austeria (1981). It’s an instant of the kind of visual poetry...
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Kinoteka 2015: ‘Illumination’ review
★★★★★ The post-war years begat a period of enormous creativity across European cinema and Krzysztof Zanussi’s Illumination (1973) stands out as a prime example...
Kinoteka 2015: ‘Foreign Body’ review
★★☆☆☆ Krzysztof Zanussi position as Poland’s moral cinematic conscience is presumably the one he was playing up to for his latest film, Foreign Body...
Kinoteka 2015: ‘The Constant Factor’ review
★★★★☆ If all of life is a beautiful equation, then madness is re-running it over and over with the expectation of a different outcome....
Kinoteka 2015: ‘Camouflage’ review
★★★★☆ Krzysztof Zanussi is a filmmaker that has, for much of his career, been considered by many as the cinematic conscience of Poland. There...
Kinoteka 2015: Read our preview
On Wednesday 8 April at 6pm, the BFI will host a screening of Krzysztof Zanussi’s dialectic satire Camouflage (1977) – followed by a Q&A...
