剧情介绍

  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."

评论:

  • 姿蓓 7小时前 :

    oh Talulah的脸蛋。好的电影就是【文化输出】,好的电影就是【观众也会陪角色爱上另一个角色】,好的电影就是【忘掉时间不知不觉到了尾声却感觉没怎么眨过眼】。在巴黎是不是真的很容易找到爱做?总之八十年代的巴黎好像一颗黄金大块。相比十六岁时,中老年的甘斯布虽然不是我的菜但天生丽质的确不怕时光考验。还是要再说一嘴Talulah的脸精美的像是仿生羊电子人。

  • 学夏兰 0小时前 :

    陈思成在《唐探》系列一直用力想做到的事,刘循子墨第一部电影就做到了。

  • 张廖烨烁 0小时前 :

    就那种有工夫花式玩隐喻没工夫想会不会恶心到女人

  • 佴鹏天 7小时前 :

    骚柔小诗。夜色凉如水,巴黎媚如诗,老夏美如画

  • 凡辰 4小时前 :

    当然,后面又反转了,它们就是两个案子。

  • 包乐水 9小时前 :

    在这样的一个刚下过雨的夏夜特别适合看这样一部电影,温柔、轻盈、舒适、清新、隽永,就是一部献给巴黎的小夜曲。80年代的巴黎,摇曳的晚风动感的音乐,心里住着母狮子的母亲、敏感的儿子、温柔的女儿、水晶般的女孩,这一切都是如此的美好。最喜欢的一幕来自于四人餐桌前的拥抱,窗外是灯火闪烁的夜景,屋内流淌着黑胶唱片的音乐,桌前是刚刚烤好的焦糖甜点,一切尽在不言中。自由的气息真好!

  • 巫马天翰 4小时前 :

    温情、动人,叙事节奏很舒服,影片色调是我喜欢的,周末再看一遍。

  • 拜星菱 5小时前 :

    同质量国产:一星,演技用力过猛,逻辑漏洞过多,喜剧不像喜剧,推理不像推理,四不像也叫电影。

  • 卫一泓 1小时前 :

    [Berlinale Competition]战后现代主义功能性建筑的乌托邦设计被利用和平衡/“retro-futuristic”。音乐太好听

  • 卫丽莎 4小时前 :

    谐音梗狂热爱好者大喜,迷影梗嘉年华,玩周杰伦的今天想起来还想笑,猝不及防,甚至连自己的《报告老板》都玩,柯达野蛮人一出笑得我双脚轮番跺地(“应该这么拍”就是要这个!)节奏算挺好的,几次反转比较到位,要说硬伤就是第二次本煜为什么不逃跑算了(反正主要目的已经达成,次要目的不过是锦上添花,牺牲duck不必),有点为了戏剧性而妥协的意思,但我也想不到如何处理得更好。还有就是调色能不能再花花钱,做点电影感。演员都好到位,喻恩泰秦霄贤都挺恰当挺有戏的,尤其是对女性的塑造,堪称这种当代小片儿的清流了,终于有个有格局有容颜有身材有脑子的女性形象了,邓家佳很酷很喜欢。这帮人这么久还在一起,而且能做得越来越大且做得不错,真为他们骄傲啊!!好久没有能在影院放心笑的电影,完全可以进一步期待刘循子墨了!

  • 可叶帆 9小时前 :

    犯罪推理加黑色幽默,挺过瘾的。小警察死之前拼力说出的那个"滚"字快让人笑崩了;

  • 圣白秋 0小时前 :

    胶片 玻璃窗台的阳光 埃菲尔 电影院 图书馆 唱片 法式温情

  • 彩文 6小时前 :

    一些漫不经心的小事,一些轻盈浪漫的文艺感,注入深沉浓烈的个人情绪,别有一番风味

  • 公西半香 9小时前 :

    原以为就是假喜剧隐藏一个反转…本来只想给三星半,但是看到最后,惊喜了!反转之后反转又反转,非常惊喜!一定要看到最后,最后很精彩。(友情提示:尺度略大,能上映,属于奇迹…)

  • 卫绵升 9小时前 :

    所以当年的万合天宜,真的是在一群拍网剧的小咖里,捞出了一票天才啊

  • 义伶伶 8小时前 :

    Il y aura ce que nous avons été pour les autres, des bribes, des fragments de nous que parfois ils crurent entrevoir. Il y aura ces rêves de nous qu'ils nourrirent, et ils ne nous étions jamais les mêmes, nous étions chaque fois ces inconnus magifiques

  • 卫慧萍 8小时前 :

    应该是我很喜欢的类型的电影,之后我要自己再看一遍。

  • 房晗蕊 9小时前 :

    Charlotte Gainsbourg是我心中 全世界最美的女人❤️

  • 文端敏 9小时前 :

    有那么点致敬侯麦的味道,氛围营造非常成功...

  • 帛韫素 3小时前 :

    电影开始后5分钟就不能入场了,那就偷溜进去看圆月映花都吧

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