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Top Polish Films?

  • 12-08-2011 12:55pm
    #1
    tommyl2010
    Closed Accounts Posts: 240 ✭✭


    Hi All

    Id like to download some polish films for my girlfriend (she polish obviously). Could any of the polish community on here recommend anything good from the last few years?


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  • #2
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    Avalon is ****ing fantastic, sci-fi film

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6M9cMdq8MA

    The film is set in a bleak future, where the population is hooked on an immersive illegal virtual reality video game called Avalon. Despite its popularity the game can be deadly, leaving players' bodies catatonic in the real world. One player of the game, Ash (played by Polish actress Małgorzata Foremniak), hears of a secret level hidden within Avalon. The film follows her quest to find the level.


  • #3
    Nolanger
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    Don't about the last few years but Knife in the water (from the '60s) is impressive. Have another one on DVD called Man of Iron but haven't watched it yet.


  • #4
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,091 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    One name springs to mind: Krzysztof Kieślowski. Before he moved to France and made the Three Colours trilogy, he became famous for his Decalogue: ten one-hour films based on the 10 Commandments, made in Warsaw in Polish. Numbers 5 and 6 were expanded and distributed more widely, under the names A Short Film About Killing and A Short Film About Love - those are the two I've seen.

    PS: in this forum, talk of downloading can get you banned: say "buy" instead.

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  • #5
    duckworth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 274 ✭✭duckworth


    Watch the Decalogue!!!! It's the greatest thing ever put on film.

    And when you've watched that you can move onto the rest of Kieslowski's stuff (although alot of the best ones weren't Polish films as such)

    Don't know anything about any other Polish cinema other than the director Wajda keeps getting recommended to me. Also, I haven't seen it, but the film Possession (1981) has a Polish director and is supposed to be a great horror.


  • #6
    Peter Walczak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 115 ✭✭Peter Walczak


    Stay away from any recent Polish movies. They're crap. The only exception seems to be the Suicide Room (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1808454/). I haven't seen it myself yet but from what I've heard it's worth watching. I'm looking forward to its DVD release in two or three weeks.


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  • #7
    Owen
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    Sorry for the thread bump, but Edi was a great film, really enjoyed the story. Most Polish girls seem to love the kitsch 70's scifi movie Sexmisia too. Cheesy comedy meets wooden scifi sets.


  • #8
    Morlar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,273 ✭✭✭Morlar


    Katyn is one that springs to mind.


  • #9
    stealinhorses
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 774 ✭✭✭stealinhorses


    "All That I Love" ("Wszystko, co kocham") is really good.

    It was released in 2009 but it's set in the early 1980s. It tells the story of a young man who finds himself at a crossroad of conflicting interests. He falls in love with a girl, his punk rock band is about to headline his school's end of year ball, and his father who is in the military deals with the introduction of martial law.
    Very stylish and poignant - would recommend it to anyone.


  • #10
    spurious
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    'Pora Umierac' is a great film. Practically a one-hander - a fine example of one of Poland's foremost actresses working well into old age.


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