Word: wajda
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ashes and Diamonds--Andrzej Wajda's fine film about life and death in postwar Poland. At the BRATTLE...
...money, Milos Forman is the first really important product of the overrated Czech-Polish "renaissance." In Loves of a Blonde,he dissociates himself from the more adulated Slavs. There is none of their relentless virtuosity-none of Wajda's beautiful but monotonously static compositions, none of the bludgeoning Polanski's Wellesian low angels and shock cuts, none of the coy mysteriousness common to Shop on Main Street and Joseph Kilian. Forman is more Western in temperament, a humanist in the Renoir-Truffaut-Olmi line of descent...
...Wild Strawberries); France's Alain Resnais (Hiroshima, Man Amour) and Francois Truffaut (The 400 Blows); Italy's Federico Fellini (La Dolce Vita), Michelangelo Antonioni (L'Avventura) and Luchino Visconti (Rocco and His Brothers); England's Tony Richardson (Look Back in Anger); Poland's Andrzej Wajda (Kanal) and Roman Polanski (Two Men and a Wardrobe); Argentina's Leopoldo Torre Nilsson (Summerskin); India's Satyajit Ray (Father Panchali...
...Andrzej Wajda's Polish section is a bit wooden and contrived, and the stark background of Warsaw is no setting for a young romance. The Italian sequence, by Renzo Rossellini, is predictably decadent, involving the passion of a kept man for a new, younger mistress...
...five episodes in Love. The one from Italy is directed by Renzo (son of Roberto) Rossellini, the one from Germany by Marcel (son of Max) Ophuls, the one from Japan by Novelist Shintaro ("The Japanese Franç01s Sagan") Ishihara, the one from Poland by Andrzej (Ashes and Diamonds) Wajda. Wajda's work is keen and sardonic, but the episode from France, directed by François (Jules and Jim) Truffaut, makes the other three look sick sick sick. It is cruel, touching, funny. It is true to life at an age when life is true...