Farewells (Has, 1958): BFI Southbank, NFT2, 6.10pm
This film, part of the Wojciech Has season at BFI Southbank, also screens on April 18th tomorrow. You can find all the details here.
Chicago Reader review:
Wojciech Has’s 1958 Polish film was apparently conceived as a mixture of
comedy and melodrama, but its deliberate imagery, ponderous pace, and
fatalistic tone give it an air of hopeless melancholy. A rebellious
young student, sick of his studies and his family, flees to the country
with a taxi dancer; the year is 1939, and not long after his father
intervenes Poland is invaded. When the student meets the girl a few
years later under the German occupation, their circumstances have
changed greatly. From the beginning Has suggests that his characters are
ruled more by social forces than by their own wills: often they
surrender the foreground and move into the background, taking their
place in the larger scheme as the narrative descends into despair.
Fred Camper
Here (and above) is an extract.
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