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Because of lock down we can't meet and watch the movie in one of Kraków's caffee as we used to. Cultural institutions in Poland are also closed, so I created group to share info about cultural events world wide:https://www.facebook.com/groups/1341254846213001/?ref=share
We will do online presentation of the movie and discussion together, so you can ask questions.
The movie you should find and watch by yourself ideally before the presentation, but not necessary.
Link to the meeting we will announce in our movie community whatsapp group:
https://chat.whatsapp.com/KheAanJQJqICu19irbljhF
Most likely it will be live streaming on our movie fb group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1341254846213001
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Krzysztof Kieślowski is one of the most famous Polish director, in many movie schools students from all arround the world are studing his movies.
This time we will present 1st movie from his three colors trilogy, Blue.
Internet review:
Krzysztof Kieslowski is, unquestionably, the master of the visual narrative.
More-so than even La Double Vie de Veronique (which is much more poetic than linear in it's structure), Trois Couleurs: Bleu is a marvel of visual exposition. Due to the nature of the film, exposition in this case is not necessarily related to plot, but rather to the understanding of a human being.
Kieslowski delves so deeply into the true nature of Julie (Juliette Binoche) and in such a remarkable way that by the end of the film we understand her utterly. Free from the clutter of dialogue and, for the most part, interaction with other characters we see Julie alone and in her most natural state. Kieslowski takes his documentary background and conveys his character in an almost voyeuristic manner. Showing Julie in anything but a state of solitude would be false; due to human nature Julie with Oliver would not be Julie, but rather a reflection of her true self which, although certainly interesting, pales in comparison to observing her silently struggle with the death of her husband and daughter alone.
Kieslowski played with applying the documentary techniques, which he perfected in his early work, to the narrative form in The Dekalog with tremendous, although at times visually mundane, results. The Dekalog looks like a documentary. Here, he turns over much visual control to his Director of Photographer, Slawomir Idziak, with tremendously cinematic results. Idziak's use of color and light, combined with his groundbreaking filter work, serve to further explore Julie's character. Blue feels like a documentary and looks like a dismal Rembrandt. While Kieslowski concentrates on showing the true nature of Julie through action, Idziak contributes by showing her through light and color.
Trois Couleurs: Blue is an almost unmatched achievement in the history of cinema. Never before has a character been conveyed so splendidly and in such a visually stunning manner.
This event is part of larger project of Screening Kieślowski movies. The link is here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/3009519809175729/
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Paweł is a local city, cultural and food tour guide in Kraków since 2007. Initially his knowledge about Polish films was average. But then when he discover how usefull movies are as educational tools to talk about Poland things have changed.
He started to focus more on the important movies about Polish history. Then one day in November 2015 he decided to share it not only during his work as a proffesional tour guide, but also to Couchsurfing community and all culturally hungry people, this time totally for free.
Since that day in 2015 Paweł joined academy of Polish films academy, attended as many lectures as possible. Constantly reads about Polish cinema and developed his true passion. At one point Paweł did even screen several Polish low-budget productions inviting people who were involved in production. But it was difficult to find movies like that regularly. If you would like to screen yours movie or movie of your friend, let me know!
When after almost 90 years Poland finally got first Oscar, (We have only one small category - foreign language film) Paweł organized screening of "Ida" in cinema twice. In his opinion English subtitles well very much cenzored which ... is the key reason why this movie get oscar.
Nevertheless first Paweł's impression about the event was terrible. 60 people in the hall, for many of them it was the first Polish film they will ever see, at least half of them eating chips making huge noice with their plastic packages, one person even open yoghurt, take the spoon and start to eat regular supper...
Paweł though that that will be huge failer, those people probably expect an easy entertainment, American style shallow action or comedy film, but... At the end of the screening there was about 2 minutes of total silence... and then huge applause after. Paweł thinks that something very important happened that night and those emotions related made this project very valuable!
Each movie is followed by Pawel's or his friend introduction. Sometimes they also screen very rare and almost impossible to find online interviews with director. Off course all materials are with English subtitles. Sometimes screening of the movie is connected with the tour in the museum or around the city if the topic is related.
If you have any favorite Polish films, or at least made by Polish director or about history of Poland let us know, let's share great cinema together.
Agenda:
Every Saturday online presentation of the movie.
Every Sunday, Wednesday and Thursday online tours.
All the events are always announced here
https://www.facebook.com/Good-events-with-Pawel-187521964925690/
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