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Technically, the film is fine. It was Mamet's intention that the direction underscore the writing and acting. This is certainly not the film for grand camera moves or stylish lighting. Mamet and his director of photography, Andrzej Sekula, leave that up to Oliver Stone and Robert Richardson. John's hard-wood paneled office with its musty flavor and dark lighting is treated much like the stage of a play. The actors move and the camera follows. All would have been fine were it not for David Mamet's simplified version of sexual harassment...
...never sets on the line, but it is setting now over Ulica Piekna in Warsaw. Robert from Plock has been turned away, as have half of his companions. But Andrzej Zdanowski, 22, a Warsaw office clerk who has not reached the visa office, is still prepared to try his luck. "I have heard that Americans are friendly and tolerant, and one may meet an unselfish smile there," he says. Then he adds, "There are things there that don't exist here, unique things. And a man is always attracted to something...
Poles smarting under shock-therapy economic reforms seemed to look to their chief 1980s crusader against communism as an overnight savior. Walesa adviser Andrzej Machalski cautioned, "We have to get people to understand that reality consists of many small problems, not just one big one named 'the government...
...ever. It is no longer a question of obtaining a passport and an exit permit from a suspicious communist regime. Now the problem for Poles, Bulgarians and Romanians is to obtain visas to the West or even permits to visit one of the other countries in Eastern Europe. Says Andrzej Misiok, a Pole seeking a visa to Greece: "In reality I am not much freer than before...
...studying other ways of unloading state-owned companies, including a novel plan first discussed in Czechoslovakia that would create a capital market by giving shares to each citizen. The shares could later be traded on a stock exchange. "We have to remember that society has been pauperized," says Andrzej Bratkowski, a parliamentary Deputy. "There is just no money around to buy out the state...