IN THE NAME OF / W IMIĘ
(Poland, 2013) by MAŁGORZATA SZUMOWSKA drama, 101 min, en subtitles
Father Adam takes over a small parish in the middle of nowhere. He organises a community centre for boys with troubled pasts. His energy is appreciated and the locals accept him as one of their own. Everybody wants to be close to him, feeding off of his vitality and power, but no one knows he harbours his own secret. After meeting an eccentric and silent young man, a local pariah, Father Adams is forced to confront a long forgotten burden and passion. As the villagers’ worst suspicions are confirmed, Father Adam becomes the obvious enemy. An intimate drama set in a Catholic community by the director of Elles and 33 Scenes from Life.
BEFORE TONIGHT IS OVER / KÝM SA SKONČÍ TÁTO NOC (Czechoslovakia, 1965) by PETER SOLAN comedy, 91 min, en subtitles
Two female clerks using up their savings to enjoy a few days of carefree life, two plumbers looking for an erotic adventure, a building contractor determined to drink away all the wages of his workers and a former major who became an alcoholic due to political persecution – these people meet in a ski resort bar somewhere in the High Tatras. During the course of one night they gradually reveal theunfulfilled dreams, illusions and disappointments of “average” people of those times. A not so well-known classic of the Czechoslovak New Wave in a newly restored version.
CINÉAST MEETS CINÉLUNATIQUE
SWEET MOVIE
(Canada-France-Germany, 1974) by DUŠAN MAKAVEJEV avantgarde comedy/drama, 98 min, fr version with en subtitles One of the most daring avant-garde films of the 1970s by the Yugoslavian enfant terrible Dušan Makavejev follows two women characters: a Canadian beauty queen and a female captain of a ship decorated with a massive head of Karl Marx. Bizarre, obscene, madly imaginative and provocative, this film is a visual definition of the word “controversial”.
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