May 14 - 7:00pm
Andrzej Wajda (1977) (1979) 118 mins

Wajda’s overtly “politicised” cinema moves into a more internal, reflective mode here as Wiktor Ruben (Wajda regular Daniel Olbrychski) returns to the place where he once spent halcyon holidays in his youth. This character’s re-encounter with a past life & past loves brings us into an almost Chekhovian world of bittersweet loss, tremulous mood-swings, & the poignancy of trying to capture the ineffable. Nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, this dark romance has been compared to both Woody Allen & Ingmar Bergman
Imported 35mm print of the new restoration courtesy of Filmoteka Narodowa.
May 14 - 9:10pm
Andrzej Wajda (1973) 102 mins

A poet marries a peasant girl & the wedding guests gather to celebrate, argue, dance & make love. Adapted from Stanislaw Wyspianski’s play, probably the most celebrated of all Polish dramatic works, Wajda’s wonderfully rich, highly symbolic & breathlessly panoramic film is an allegory of Polish identity & was an obvious influence on Robert Altman’s subsequent A Wedding. “Wajda’s masterpiece takes us to the very heart of Polish reality” (Raymond Lefévre).
Imported 35mm print of the new restoration courtesy of Filmoteka Narodowa.