Farewells - What does Wojciech J. Has did Adieu to?

• Authors: Swidzinski W.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Wojciech Jerzy Has began to reflect on the structure of time with his film 'Farewells'. The director was having a poetic dialogue, lined with irony, with the national tradition and prose of Stanislaw Dygat when he made a film that entered the canon of the Polish school, but at the same time stayed on the sidelines. Has was more interested in searching for lost time and observing how people, places and things had vanished than in History. The love affair of the film heroine and hero, Lidka and Pawel, is almost literally run over by the column of Soviet tanks in the closing scenes of the film. What mattered more was the game the pair was playing when they met each other and parted - it's almost a sophisticated waste of new chances… Thematically, 'Farewells' paves the way to 'How to Be Loved' whereas stylistically to 'The Hourglass Sanatorium'. In many respects, 'Farewells' is a match for the two masterpieces.

Keywords

EN

HAS WOJCIECH JERZY

Discipline

• ARTS_&_ARCHITECTURE: ARTS & ARCHITECTURE

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Sztuki PAN
• Journal: Kwartalnik Filmowy
• Year: 2007
• Issue: 57-58
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Swidzinski W.

• W. Swidzinski, for postal address contact the journal editor

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

07PLAAAA03126448