★★★★☆ "What does a play about actors and the theatre mean?" These may be indignant words taken from the mouth of the frustrated Krzysztof (Tadeusz Huk) but it's a question pertinent to the film it appears in, Agnieszka Holland's first major feature, Provincial Actors. The director has oft been quoted as stating that this was not a 'thesis film' and that she intended to present characters' entwined fates rather than make a political statement. Of course, any work produced in Poland in the late 1970s is inextricably enmeshed in political dialogue - more so a film completed in 1979 when Holland was to leave the country for exile in France in 1981 immediately prior to the introduction of martial law.
- 4/12/2016
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
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