Everything for Sale
- sombre
- inventive
Sombre, steady, measured drama / meta, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →Wajda's homage to Zbigniew Cybulski, the "Polish James Dean" who starred in the director's ASHES AND DIAMONDS and died young. The movie follows the tribulations of a director attempting to make a movie with a Cybulski-like star who never shows up.
Our read · Everything for Sale (1969) reads as a sombre, steady, inventive drama · meta · tragedy entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
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The shape of Everything for Sale
What watching it is actually like.
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The reading.
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