Vatican newspaper praises Polish cinema. “More than for art as … – rmf24.pl

The Vatican newspaper “L’Osservatore Romano” writes on Thursday that the Golden Lion award for lifetime achievement, which Jerzy Skolimowski will receive at the Venice Film Festival, is also a “tribute” Polish cinema, often – he adds – zapominanego.

Polish director will receive a special prize Golden Lion at the gala on the occasion of the inauguration of the Venice festival – 31 August.

the Vatican newspaper notes that Polish cinema is rewarded, but equally often “neglected by the audience and quickly forgotten by the critics.”

but, he adds, it is “able to make a remarkable contribution to the auteur cinema, despite the relatively modest size of production.”

compared with nearly 20 films a year produced in the most fruitful seasons, which rarely successful business abroad, not a few names of Polish, which have gone down in the history of cinema, even aside from those already known and great as Andrzej Wajda, Roman Polanski, Krzysztof Kieslowski – highlighted in the article “was created for the art.” This title refers to one of the theses of the text that “unlike the rest of the world” cinema in Poland was born, “more for art than as entertainment.”

The article notes that the Polish film production has always tended especially towards the cinema copyright. This view is associated with a historical context -in the first years dissemination of the cinema since Poland was still under occupation.

was constantly threatened national cultural identity, and makers of high culture, especially writers, were seen as pillars identity homeland. On the more popular forms of culture while they looked with apprehension as a possible tool for integration of Poles with the nations that occupy – indicates “L’Osservatore Romano”.

success, almost immediately, this new form arts – adds journal – was therefore considered to be dangerous, as a consequence, therefore, sought to reduce inflicted its damage by giving content the nearby from those presented in the literature .

Newspaper returns attention to the fact that the frequent habit of Polish cinema has become “an alliance of the screen with the written word”, that is, film adaptations of novels.

notes that also in Polish cinema did not take “periods of more carefree,” and as such indicates the thirties and produced the comedy.

cinema copyright mean a cinema strong individuality. Further problems will arise, therefore, the relations with the communist regime, which was the reason why many Polish directors will be refugees, more or less voluntary. Jerzy Skolimowski was one of them – sums up the newspaper.

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