Tuesday, September 02, 1997

Blizna

100382 / G / PL 1976 / Kieslowski, Krzysztof / drama
Blizna / The Scar / Arpi. PC: Film Polski.
D: Krzysztof Kieslowski. CAST: Franciszek Pieczka, Mariusz Dmochowski, Jerzy Stuhr. 104’. 1,66. DIST: Finnkino. TRANS: Jaana Wiik / Janne Staffans. Viewed at VET, Helsinki, on Tuesday, 2 September 1997. ** Kieslowski’s theatrical feature debut is clumsy - the second one, Amator (The Amateur, 1979), was already remarkably assured. Blizna shares the disconsolate realism of K’s documentaries. It experiments sparingly with sound and vision, and does not introduce very compelling characters. Kieslowski, himself, defined the film a case of ”socialist realism against the grain” with a major script problem. Worth seeing for Kieslowski aficionados.

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