Tag: Movies

• Chastity and Carnality Shot in Monochrome: Pawlikowski’s “Ida”

  

    Pawlikowski once said that “Ida doesn’t set out to explain history. That’s not what it’s about. The story is focused on very concrete and complex characters who are full of humanity with all its paradoxes. They’re not pawns used to illustrate some version of history or an ideology.” I find this to be immensely…

  Vigour of Film Lines

  January 15, 2020

  Cinema of the World, European cinema, Great Polish Directors, Pawel Pawlikowski, Polish cinema

  Aesthetics, Art, Christianity, Humanism, Humanity, Inspiration, Literature, Love, Movies, Religion

• January – Black and White European Cinema Month

  

  The first article I have published this year on this site was about a contemporary black-and-white Hungarian film Werckmeister Harmonies (2000), with the title “A Mortal God”. In this article, I explored the apocalyptic symbolism behind a decaying whale, and the pessimist philosophy of cosmic proportions presented in the film. Later, another article about a…

  Vigour of Film Lines

  January 13, 2020

  European cinema

  Art, Black and White, Cinematography, Ideas, Learning, Melancholy, Movies, Philosophy, Winter