In 1961, Stanislaw Rozewicz created the novella film "Birth Certificate" in cooperation with his brother, Taduesz Rozewicz as screenwriter. Such brother tandems are rare in the history of film but aside from family ties, Stanislaw (born in 1924) and Taduesz (born in 1921) were mutually bound by their love for the cinema. They were born and grew up in Radomsk, a small town which had "its madmen and its saints" and most importanly, the "Kinema" cinema, as Stanislaw recalls: for him cinema is "heaven, the whole world, enchantment". Tadeusz says he considers cinema both a charming market stall and a mysterious temple. "All this savage land has always attracted and fascinated me," he says. "I am devoured by cinema and I devour cinema; I'm a cinema eater." But Taduesz Rozewicz, an eminent writer, admits this unique form of cooperation was a problem to him: "It is the presence of the other person not only in the process of writing, but at its very core, which is inserperable for me from absolute solitude." Some scenes the brothers wrote together; others were created by the writer himself, following discussions with the director. But from the perspective of time, it is "Birth Certificate", rather than "Echo" or "The Wicked Gate", that Taduesz describes as his most intimate film. This is understandable. The tradgey from September 1939 in Poland was for the Rozewicz brothers their personal "birth certificate". When working on the film, the director said "This time it is all about shaking off, getting rid of the psychological burden which the war was for all of us. ... Cooperation with my brother was in this case easier, as we share many war memories. We wanted to show to adult viewers a picture of war as seen by a child. ... In reality, it is the adults who created the real world of massacres. Children beheld the horrors coming back to life, exhumed from underneath the ground, overwhelming the earth."
The principle of composition of "Birth Certificate" is not obvious. When watching a novella film, we tend to think in terms of traditional theatre. We expect that a miniature story will finish with a sharp point; the three film novellas in Rozewicz's work lack this feature. We do not know what will be happen to the boy making his alone through the forest towards the end of "On the Road". We do not know whether in "Letter from the Camp", the help offered by the small heroes to a Soviet prisoner will rescue him from the unknown fate of his compatriots. The fate of the Jewish girl from "Drop of Blood" is also unclear. Will she keep her new impersonation as "Marysia Malinowska"? Or will the Nazis make her into a representative of the "Nordic race"? Those questions were asked by the director for a reason. He preceived war as chaos and perdition, and not as linear history that could be reflected in a plot. Although "Birth Certificate" is saturated with moral content, it does not aim to be a morality play. But with the immense pressure of reality, no varient of fate should be excluded. This approached can be compared wth Krzysztof Kieslowski's "Blind Chance" 25 years later, which pictured dramatic choices of a different era.
The film novella "On the Road" has a very sparing plot, but it drew special attention of the reviewers. The ominating overtone of the war films created by the Polish Film School at that time should be kept in mind. Mainly owing to Wajda, those films dealt with romantic heritage. They were permeated with pathos, bitterness, and irony. Rozewicz is an extraordinary artist. When narrating a story about a boy lost in a war zone, carrying some documents from the regiment office as if they were a treasure, the narrator in "On the Road" discovers rough prose where one should find poetry. And suddenly, the irrational touches this rather tame world. The boy, who until that moment resembled a Polish version of the Good Soldier Schweik, sets off, like Don Quixote, for his first and last battle. A critic described it as "an absurd gesture and someone else could surely use it to criticise the Polish style of dying. ... But the Rozewicz brothers do no accuse: they only compose an elegy for the picturesque peasant-soldier, probably the most important veteran of the Polish war of 1939-1945." "Birth Certificate" is not a lofty statement about national imponderabilia. The film reveals a plebeian perspective which Aleksander Jackieqicz once contrasted with those "lyrical lamentations" inherent in the Kordian tradition. However, a historical overview of Rozewicz's work shows that the distinctive style does not signify a fundamental difference in illustrating the Polish September. Just as the memorable scene from Wajda's "Lotna" was in fact an expression of desperation and distress, the same emotions permeate the final scene of "Birth Certificate". These are not ideological concepts, though once described as such and fervently debated, but rather psychological creations. In this specific case, observes Witold Zalewski, it is not about manifesting knightly pride, but about a gesture of a simple man who does not agree to be enslaved.
The novella "Drop of Blood" is, with Aleksander Ford's "Border Street", one of the first narrations of the fate of the Polish Jews during the Nazi occupation. The story about a girl literally looking for her place on earth has a dramatic dimension. Especially in the age of today's journalistic disputes, often manipulative, lacking in empathy and imbued with bad will, Rozewicz's story from the past shocks with its authenticity. The small herione of the story is the only one who survives a German raid on her family home. Physical survial does not, however, mean a return to normality. Her frightened departure from the rubbish dump that was her hideout lead her to a ruined apartment. Her walk around it is painful because still fresh signs of life are mixed with evidence of annihilation. Help is needed, but Mirka does not know anyone in the outside world. Her subsequent attempts express the state of the fugitive's spirits - from hope and faith, moving to doubt, a sense of oppression, and thickening fear, and finally to despair.
At the same time, the Jewish girl's search for refuge resembles the state of Polish society. The appearance of Mirka results in confusion, and later, trouble. This was already signalled by Rozewicz in an exceptional scene from "Letter from the Camp" in which the boy's neighbour, seeing a fugitive Russian soldier, retreats immediately, admitting that "Now, people worry only about themselves." Such embarassing excuses mask fear. During the occupation, no one feels safe. Neither social status not the aegis of a charity organisation protects against repression. We see the potential guardians of Mirka passing her back and forth among themselves. These are friendly hands but they cannot offer strong support. The story takes place on that thin line between solidarity and heroism. Solidarity arises spontaneously, but only some are capable of heroism. Help for the girl does not always result from compassion; sometimes it is based on past relations and personal ties (a neighbour of the doctor takes in the fugitive for a few days because of past friendship). Rozewicz portrays all of this in a subtle way; even the smallest gesture has significance. Take, for example, the conversation with a stranger on the train: short, as if jotted down on the margin, but so full of tension. And earlier, a peculiar examination of Polishness: the "Holy Father" prayer forced on Mirka by the village boys to check that she is not a Jew. Would not rising to the challenge mean a death sentance?
Viewed after many years, "Birth Certificate" discloses yet another quality that is not present in the works of the Polish School, but is prominent in later B-class war films. This is the picture of everyday life during the war and occupation outlined in the three novellas. It harmonises with the logic of speaking about "life after life". Small heroes of Rozewicz suddenly enter the reality of war, with no experience or scale with which to compare it. For them, the present is a natural extension of and at the same time a complete negation of the past. Consider the sleey small-town marketplace, through which armoured columns will shortly pass. Or meet the German motorcyclists, who look like aliens from outer space - a picture taken from an autopsy because this is how Stanislaw and Taduesz perceived the first Germans they ever met. Note the blurred silhouettes of people against a white wall who are being shot - at first they are shocking, but soon they will probably become a part of the grim landscape. In the city centre stands a prisoner camp on a sodden bog ("People perish likes flies; the bodies are transported during the night"); in the street the childern are running after a coal wagon to collect some precious pieces of fuel. There's a bustle around some food (a boy reproaches his younger brother's actions by singing: "The warrant officer's son is begging in front of the church? I'm going to tell mother!"); and the kitchen, which one evening becomes the proscenium of a real drama. And there are the symbols: a bar of chocolate forced upon a boy by a Wehrmacht soldier ("On the Road"); a pair of shoes belonging to Zbyszek's father which the boy spontaneously gives to a Russian fugitive; a priceless slice of bread, ground under the heel of a policeman in the guter ("Letters from the Camp"). As the director put it: "In every film, I communicate my own vision of the world and of the people. Only then the style follows, the defined way of experiencing things." In Birth Certificate, he adds, his approach was driven by the subject: "I attempted to create not only the texture of the document but also to add some poetic element. I know it is risky but as for the merger of documentation and poety, often hidden very deep, if only it manages to make its way onto the screen, it results in what can referred to as 'art'."
After 1945, there were numerous films created in Europe that dealt with war and children, including "Somewhere in Europe" ("Valahol Europaban", 1947 by Geza Radvanyi), "Shoeshine" ("Sciescia", 1946 by Vittorio de Sica), and "Childhood of Ivan" ("Iwanowo dietstwo" by Andriej Tarkowski). Yet there were fewer than one would expect. Pursuing a subject so imbued with sentimentalism requires stylistic disipline and a special ability to manage child actors. The author of "Birth Certificate" mastered both - and it was not by chance. Stanislaw Rozewicz was always the beneficent spirit of the film milieu; he could unite people around a common goal. He emanated peace and sensitivity, which flowed to his co-workers and pupils. A film, being a group work, necessitates some form of empathy - tuning in with others.
In a biographical documentary about Stanislaw Rozewicz entitled "Walking, Meeting" (1999 by Antoni Krauze), there is a beautiful scene when the director, after a few decades, meets Beata Barszczewska, who plays Mireczka in the novella "Drops of Blood". The woman falls into the arms of the elderly man. They are both moved. He wonders how many years have passed. She answers: "A few years. Not too many." And Rozewicz, with his characteristic smile says: "It is true. We spent this entire time together."
很可爱的爱情轻喜剧，男女主身高差好萌，Lucy离开《美少女谎言》后拍电影了，很好很适合她
cliche but interesting！我要去看原版小说了🤪
哈哈哈！我喜欢女主和男主之间的化学反应， 总体值得一看
本来想打三星或者是三星半，但实在是太假了，或是太做作了。欧~
因为一个剪辑视频看的 明显剪辑视频更好看
没端住的架子-09/18/21 at AMC Garden State 16
很难再有如施拉德这般的创作者，一生中轮回一般的拍摄同一部电影：于过往伤口的裂隙中，洞悉魂灵流放的准则，但严格的自我鞭笞与暗示践行却仍无法放下赎罪的执念，舍弃掉成为幸福之人的机会，重新撕开疤痕下从未愈合的伤口，以自毁完成受戒，实现神迹的手动圆满。现代社会中精神世界远离宿命信仰的人们无法逃脱的虚无焦虑，成为对黑色电影语汇的超验，奥斯卡·伊萨克与先前《美国舞男》《迷幻人生》《第一归正会》中的男主角们高度重叠，喃喃自语，背负原罪，在自我封闭的冥想炼狱中写下孤独存在的证据，并迎接那亘古不变的布列松式结局——触不到却存在的稀薄的温存。舞男、毒贩、神父和赌徒，不同身份象征却陷入相似的困顿，几十年来，支撑施拉德坚持拍摄这些寓言的又是什么，新好莱坞的伤逝，美利坚的幻灭，他又何尝不是自己笔下镜头下的那些角色呢。
威尼斯主竞赛第二场，我在纠结给4🌟还是给5🌟
不知道是不是威廉达福给我的错觉，怎么施拉德到这一部变得有点像费拉拉。
简单的爱情片，适合十几二十岁的年轻人看，我是看女主脸蛋还不错才看的，她说话有时很快让我这老人家看得有点累。
A fairly cute pastime.
包装于赌牌中的复仇故事，拍得有气无力，节奏缓慢。导演大约迷恋旧时电影，从片头、配乐、风格均有诸多模仿。同时又紧跟现在的时髦，总是爱用画外音，开场一大段独白，让人以为是广播剧。其实老老实实拍一部赌场片就好，又偏偏要加入很多的元素，还扯入虐囚酷刑之类的，两者契合得相当生硬。
颜值高，剧情虽然俗套但我也看的津津有味，而且这个男主长得好像以前的一个外教同事！
是赌片？公路片？新黑色电影？还是政治惊悚片？又是一部反类型的典范之作，将好莱坞的类型玩法与欧洲电影的心理叙事结合得恰到好处，对声音环境的塑造让人印象深刻，抛开明显可见的鱼眼镜头的声音处理不谈，单是酒吧的嘈杂与人物对白中的接应就足见功力，叙事中夹杂有很多耐人寻味的留白之处，也可以说是反高潮处理，比如公路之旅的结果如何，结尾复仇的处理等
可以算牌，可以控制赢到什么程度就离席，可以时时刻刻保持自己的行为准则，但摆脱不了曾经的梦魇，赢不了那个高喊USA的对手，救不了一心要复仇的孩子。从监狱开始，又回到监狱，到头来最适应的还是监狱生活。影片整体给人感觉是精致又晦涩的，克制又忧伤，结尾比较拉胯。每一个镜头里的Oscar Isaac都帅得不像话。
我 土狗 我 爱看【但还是前半段比较有意思就是了】
镜头过于缓慢，牌桌戏十分无聊，没有演技的演员根本演不来这种无聊的戏。大片大片的无趣独白，没有演技的演员也演不来。还好电影里有好演员。 配乐满到爆炸，配乐确实很好听，但也太慢了，每过一会就响起一段配乐，都不管搭不搭。
剧情都能猜到，但是剧情进展很快，不拖沓，颜也对口，乐就行了！性张力不错👌🏻
前期节奏挺好的，后期开始崩坏，美国的date文化让人有点不解，哈哈看看就好
好久没看这么简单纯粹的小妞电影了，全是套路，不用动脑。
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