Angelus (2001)
Director: Lech Majewski
Genre: Drama / Fantasy / Surreal comedy
Runtime: 104 min
Country: Poland
Language: Polish
Color: Color
Subs: English / Chinese
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0295168/ (8.4)
Reviews: http://www.culture.pl/en/culture/artyku ... s_majewski
Specs: XviD + MP3, 1CD 49 x 15MB, 608 x 352
Very nice film. Among one of my favorites indeed, even no less than some of peter greenaway.
Portrait of a ...
Two things stand out in this film: Set design and Cinematography. Each indoor room and the stories that unfold within are like viniettes. They look like individual oil paintings. The experience of viewing the film is like walking thru a gallery. You stop in front of each picture and the images start moving, the story takes off. Use of directional lighting add to the oil-painting effect, similar to directional light from candle sources in those old paintings. Polish cinema continues to bring out innovative cinema.
Polish director Lech Majewski followed up his 1999 film Wojaczek with this dark fantasy comedy based on true events that took place in a Selisian town beginning in the 1930s and continuing through the 1950s. As World War II looms, the leader of an occultist commune in a small Polish mining town makes three prophecies before dying, the third prophecy predicting the demise of the human race. Over the years, the members of the commune watch with great anxiety as the the first two prophecies appear to come true. Believing that the Apocalypse is fast approaching, they select a virgin boy from the commune to sacrifice himself and save the world from certain destruction. Cinematographer Adam Sikora won the Silver Frog for Angelus at Poland's 2001 Camerimage film festival. — Matthew Tobey
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Subs here:
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