“They’re starting politics early, this generation.” Adapted by Bohdan Czeszko from his novel, Andrzej Wajda’s first feature film, Pokolenie, begins in 1942 in Warsaw and concerns itself with an underground youth resistance movement hoping to deliver Poland from the current Nazi occupation to its Soviet-allianced postwar communist future. Wajda has said that this distortion of […]
Daily Archives: July 23, 2009
“Life at every point might have been different. Isn’t life strange?” — Aiko Written by Wu Nien-jen, Ann Hui’s autobiographical Ke tu qiu hen, from Hong Kong and Taiwan, folds the relationship between a Chinese-born daughter, who has just returned to Hong Kong from the U.K., and her Japanese-born mother into both Chinese history, including […]
Dennis Grunes 