Pokłosie

Polish filmmakers once again showed off their skill and craft and made a brilliant drama that opens up a rather brutal Polish stigma from the war. And I must say that I’m really glad they opened it up even though the Polish don’t really like to be reminded of it. But national stigmata need to be accepted and people need to move on. If they are not talked about, they will remain unresolved and there will still be hatred within the nation. In our case, this was shown pretty well by Juraj Herz in Habermann’s Mill. War is simply a mess and it leads to the kind of stories you can see in this movie. After the movie was over, I wanted to give it five stars based on the topic itself. But I was a bit disappointed about the way they cut off the ending, and also when I thought about it, I had no idea how those tombstones got there in the first place. It was also quite funny that Franciszek kept wearing a suit everywhere he went… in the fields, in the marshes… couldn’t he have borrowed some regular clothes from his brother, like a pair of regular pants and a T-shirt? Apart from this, the movie is the bomb! Another gem made by Polish filmmakers and I guess it’s the most self-critical and most controversial topic I have seen them tackle so far. (21.01.2019)

Película muy peculiar, es muy difícil valorar y comentar. Esperaba algo completamente diferente, la primera media hora me pareció ágil y emocionante, despertó mi curiosidad sobre lo que sucedió en el pasado. Sin embargo, la trama comenzó a desarrollarse de una manera que dejó sentimientos contradictorios en mí. Entiendo completamente que era importante para los polacos hacer una película con este tema, pero la forma en que se presentó no me gustó del todo, incluyendo la resolución y el final. Sin duda, es una película de calidad, pero simplemente no me convenció. (25.03.2015)