The Good Pole: Holland’s Humanitarian Drama a Steady Drizzle of Misery Porn
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Intimate Strangers: Szumowska & Englert Explore Despondency & Isolation
Our innate capacity for constructing the vehicles of our own alienation and ennui inform the backdrop...
Wonder Zenia
Get ready for a deluge of new films from Poland’s Małgorzata Szumowska. 2019 saw her English language debut The Other Lamb (read review)...
The thrill of meeting Marjane Satrapi reminded me of being 6 years old at Disney Land when I met the living, breathing Cinderella. Except Cinderella was an actress with a blond wig and Marjane is the real woman behind her autobiographical graphic novel, turned movie, “Persepolis”. The distinctive mole on her nose and her dark sultry eyes rose off the page and appeared in front of me, smoking and speaking with a French accent.