Filmmaker and Kieślowski friend Agnieszka Holland has suggested that writer-director Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Przypadek involves “the mechanics of human destiny.” The film was made in the shadow of his mother’s death earlier that year in a car crash. Wietold Diugosz, nicknamed Witek (Boguslaw Linda, intelligent though bland—nonetheless, best actor, Polish Film Festival), is a young medical […]
Daily Archives: July 9, 2009
Young carpenter Hachemi is reluctantly headed for an arranged marriage in Nouri Bouzid’s moody, painfully oblique Rih essed, from Tunisia. It is a tale of two mentors who schematically embody two contrary sets of experiences from Hachemi’s past. One mentor continues to exert a benign influence; this is kindly Mr. Levy, a Jewish man who […]
Dennis Grunes 