Mesmerizing and deeply affecting, Polish writer-director Krzysztof Zanussi’s Spirala so closely attends to a single character that it evolves into a spiritual as well as psychological portrait of the young man. Tomasz Piątek, although he hasn’t booked a room, enters a ski resort. He behaves enigmatically, accosting other guests with rude, personal remarks and interrupting […]
Daily Archives: July 22, 2012
A superficial though fascinating film, if for no other reason than the fact that Alfred Döblin himself helped adapt his 1929 novel, Piel Jutzi’s Berlin Alexanderplatz attempts a social underbelly-up portrait of the Wiemar Republic. (Karl Heinz Martin and Hans Wilhelm also worked on the script.) Its launch the release from prison, after four years, […]
Dennis Grunes 