The Wedding
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- inventive
Sombre, kinetic, measured drama / historical, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →Set at the turn of the century, the story concerns a Polish poet living in Cracow who has decided to marry a peasant girl. The wedding is attended by a heterogenous group of people from all strata of Polish society, who dance, get drunk and lament Poland's 100-year-long division under Russia, Prussia, and Austria. The bridegroom, a painter friend, and a journalist each in turn is confronted with spectres of Polish past.
Our read · The Wedding (1973) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive drama · historical · allegory entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
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The shape of The Wedding
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