Identification Marks: None (Skolimowski, 1964): BFI Southbank, NFT3, 6.40pm
This film is also being screened on April 3rd. Full details of the Jerzy Skolimowski season at BFI Southbank can be found here.
Chicago Reader review:
Few movies have portrayed killing time with as much urgency as Jerzy
Skolimowski’s debut feature (1964), completed when the director was only
26. It takes place over several hours before a young layabout (played
by Skolimowski in a deadpan performance) has to leave town for two years
of military service; the character’s impending loss of freedom gives
way to a film of unfettered imagination, with a narrative that zigzags
from one digression to another and ambitious camerawork that transforms
the dreary industrial town of Łódz into something out of a dream. The
freewheeling vibe might remind you of contemporaneous films by Richard
Lester (The Knack . . . and How to Get It) or Jean-Luc Godard (Band of Outsiders),
though Skolimowski’s fantasy of youth is distinctly more acrid. For all
his liberated behavior, the hero never manages to transcend the
repressiveness of Soviet bloc culture–nor, for that matter, his inherent
selfishness.
Ben Sachs
Here (and above) is an extract.
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