Andrzej Wajda’s last feature is a biopic about Władysław Strzemiński, the famous Polish avant-garde painter. As much as it’s a celebration of the brilliant work one man made, it also sheds light on the difficulties of Strzemiński’s life. He was cast out for his views, lost his job, even had his artistic license revoked, and that’s only part of it. The film is Wajda’s commentary that any true artist will always be suffering in some way, whatever their situation may be.
Introduction by Michael Brooke.
Wajda’s first full length film is a heartfelt look at the effect of war on the adolescents who are moulded in it and how it sets their entire lives on a needless path of suffering. Stach (Tadeusz Łomnicki) is a young man working as an...
Celebrating the 15th anniversary of KINOTEKA Polish Film Festival, the Polish Cultural Institute in London and the Barbican Centre present a unique, specially commissioned show by much loved art rock sextet British Sea Power playing...
Robert Bolesto’s script takes the famous artistic Beksiński family as inspiration and imagines what the dynamic between the members might have been. The head of the house, Zdzisław the gothic painter, video-records his family over...
