Moonlighting (Skolimowski, 1982): BFI Southbank, NFT3, 6.20pm
This film is also screened on April 9th at BFI Southbank. Full details of the Jerzy Skolimowski season at the cinema can be found here.
Chicago Reader review:
Conceived and shot in the space of a few weeks due to the Solidarity
crisis of December 1981, Jerzy Skolimowski’s black comedy is much more
than a political tract: it’s a profound, gripping comedy of terror and
isolation, oppression and entrapment. Jeremy Irons, in a performance
worthy of Chaplin, is the head of a Polish construction crew doing
illegal work on a flat in London; when the military coup occurs back
home, Irons—the only member of the group who speaks English—must keep it
a secret from his men. Though the film is founded on a metaphor, it is
never forced or abstract: Skolimowski’s direction is a concrete creative
response to these actors in this setting at this time, making full
expressive use of the details, gestures, and situations at hand. It is,
in short, a film—unimaginable as theater or literature—and very possibly
a great one.
Dave Kehr
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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