Lech Majewski - Angelus (2000)

Thoroughly and rather inscrutably Polish, Angelus makes a fable of Poland's 20th-century history. In it, caricatures of Hitler and Stalin mix with angels, saints, and a kooky band of sun-worshipping cultists who believe a ray from Saturn will destroy the planet. In a world director Majewski renders in stylized, eccentric tableaus, this eschatology seems fairly reasonable–even if it means a naked, virginal teen boy must be sacrificed to absorb the ray and save the Earth. (Is he a Christ figure? Well, Angelus is fairly well suffused with religious symbolism, so you do the math.) This guileless chosen one narrates the decades-spanning tale, which often suggests a gentler kind of Emir Kustericia-style absurdist nationalism (see Underground) shorn of sex and violence. What lies next for Poland after the horrors of WWII and repression of the communist era? How will the world end? Judged by the movie (if not its prophecies), more with a whimper than a bang.







Dos cosas en este filme: Diseño del set y la cinematografia. Cada habitacion y las historias que se desarrollan al interior son como viñetas. Parecen acrilicos individuales. La experiencia de ver este filme es como una caminata alrededor de una galeria. Puedes detenerte frente a cada pintura y las imagenes comienzan a moverse y la historia comienza . El uso de luz direccional le da el efecto de un acrilico, similar al que las habitaciones alumbradas con veladoras da en esas viejas pinturas. El cine polaco continua dandonos cine innovador.