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With its elegant costumes and set design, Walerian Borowczyk’s sophisticated medieval tragedy exceeds conventional historical dramas.
Review by Alison Frank
With its elegant costumes and set design, Walerian Borowczyk’s sophisticated medieval tragedy exceeds conventional historical dramas.
Review by Alison Frank
Krzysztof Zanussi’s film is a visually complex, perceptive and compassionate examination of the essence of knowledge and truth.
Review by Alison Frank
An anti-war film made just two years before World War II, it was banned in Germany, Italy and France, before the Nazis confiscated the negative.
Review by Alison Frank
A taut mystery thriller from Polish master Jerzy Kawalerowicz, who would go on to make Mother Joan of Angels.
Review by Alison Frank
Filled with catchy revolutionary tunes and lush colour imagery of attractive peasants in a fertile landscape, Red Psalm has an irresistible appeal.
Review by Alison Frank
What makes good kids turn bad?
Review by Alison Frank
This much-admired Hungarian film centres on the title character Szindbád, who sails, like his namesake, but in a metaphorical sense.
Review by Alison Frank
L’âge d’or was the only surrealist film that completely satisfied André Breton.
Review by Alison Frank
Because Menzel’s film is explicitly set during communism, it is hard not to focus on the bitter reality of the situation.
Review by Alison Frank
Miloš Forman’s is a gem of the Czech New Wave.
Review by Alison Frank