ESSAYS

Still an Interesting Cinema — Poles in Tuškanac

Program of Contemporary Polish Films, Film Programmes, May 9-15, 2006

Essayistic review of the programme of contemporary Polish film presented as part of Film Programmes in Zagreb. There is a short review of the Polish film after the Second World War and the state of Polish film after the fall of communism and the death of the latest great author, Krzysztof Kieslowski, when that great European cinematography seems to have started losing momentum. The author comments on the latest Polish trend of going back to »small« films, after a few attempts at big state productions (Ogniem i mieczem, 1999; Pan Tadeusz, 1999; Quo vadis, 2001; W pustyni i w puszczy, 2001). He also discusses new films by distinguished younger authors presented in the Programmes (Jerzy Stuhr, Krzysztof Krauze, Dariusz Gajewski, Magdalena Piekorz).

Tomislav Kurelec