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Special Screening

Cinematographer: Michał Dymek

Director: Jerzy Skolimowski

Producer: Ewa Piaskowska, Jerzy Skolimowski

Writer: Ewa Piaskowska, Jerzy Skolimowski

Production designer: Miroslaw Koncewicz

Editor: Agnieszka Glińska

Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Lorenzo Zurzolo, Mateusz Kościukiewicz, Sandra Drzymalska, Tomasz Organek

Production Company: Recorded Picture Company (RPC), Skopia Film

Year: 2022

Country: Poland, Italy

Time: 86

Date and place:

2022.11.15, 13:00CKK Jordanki - Main Screening Room

The working title of this latest film by Jerzy Skolimowski is Baltazar, which is a direct reference to Robert Bresson’s Au Hasard Balthazar (1966). Both filmmakers made the journey of the goodnatured donkey the canvass for parabolic stories about the world and its human inhabitants. In the Polish director’s film, the donkey named EO, admittedly does meet sympathetic people as he is being passed from hand to hand - one of whom is a young caretaker from the circus - but what prevails, are clashes between the innocent, defenceless animal and the arrogance, the heartlessness and the mindless cruelty of humans, sometimes also of a particular social environment. Skolimowski does not duplicate Bresson’s original. In its stylistic aspect alone, his film, being a poetic reflection with digressions, narratively similar to a road movie, is situated on the antipodes of formal asceticism for which the work of the French maestro is famous. It is a reflection that was born, as the closing credits proclaim, out of love for animals and nature.

Special Screening