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DANTON directed by Andrzej Wajda; Screenplay by Jean-Claude Carriere...
...makes him more sympathetic than history generally has him. In a sense, though, that controversy is the least important aspect of the film for non-French viewers, who can afford a certain objectivity about another country's heroes and antiheroes. They can see the principal figures as Director Wajda does, not so much in a historical landscape as in a moral one that has powerful modern relevance...
Alas, these minor revelations-and two marvelously vigorous films from old masters, Italy's Ermanno Olmi (Camminacammina) and Poland's Andrzej Wajda (Danton)-were not enough to keep businessmen and journalists from grousing, as they lolled for a fortnight in one of the world's lushest garden spots. Nor will a disappointing festival keep these congenital optimists from returning next year to this bunker on the Côte d'Azur. - By Richard Corliss
...Solidarity's cinematic messenger, a director whose films, including Man of Marble and Man of Iron, were surprisingly critical of life in Communist Poland. Rounded up along with other Solidarity dissidents during the Polish government's declaration of martial law last December, Andrzej Wajda, 56, was held under house arrest. Then, in a reversal, Polish authorities decided to let him leave Poland temporarily to shoot a film in Paris. Wajda, whose Man of Iron was nominated for an Oscar, has refused all interviews in France. But in a formal statement, he did say, "The message of my films...
Among the many candles that have been lighted in honor of the free Polish spirit, Man of Marble and Man of Iron seem to be the least likely to gutter out as time goes on. It is possible, in fact, that these films of Wajda's (who last week was still reported under arrest in Poland, along with other artists and intellectuals) may become perpetual flames in the perpetual struggle against tyranny...