Innocent Sorcerers (Wajda, 1960): BFI Southbank, NFT3, 8.40pm
This is part of the Andrzej Wajda season at BFI Southbank and also screens on February 20th. You can find all the details here.
Chicago Reader review:
A 22-year-old Jerzy Skolimowski coscripted this minor
Andrzej Wajda feature (1960), a modish comedy about a hip young doctor
who moonlights as a jazz drummer. The film serves as a fascinating
document of Polish youth culture during the least repressive years of
the communist era, as well as a rough draft for the freewheeling
comedies Skolimowski would soon direct himself (Walkover, Identification Marks: None).
Wajda, for all his talent, has never had much flair for comedy, and
this feels weirdly studied for a movie about youthful exuberance. But
there are passages of genuine spontaneity, especially in an extended
confrontation between the hero and a young woman he's trying to bed; it
recalls the famous bedroom showdown in Godard's Breathless, released earlier that same year.
Ben Sachs
Here (and above) is a montage of scenes from the film.
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