In 1961, Stanislaw Rozewicz created the novella film "Birth Certificate" in cooperation with his brother, Taduesz Rozewicz as screenwriter. Such brother tandems are rare in the history of film but aside from family ties, Stanislaw (born in 1924) and Taduesz (born in 1921) were mutually bound by their love for the cinema. They were born and grew up in Radomsk, a small town which had "its madmen and its saints" and most importanly, the "Kinema" cinema, as Stanislaw recalls: for him cinema is "heaven, the whole world, enchantment". Tadeusz says he considers cinema both a charming market stall and a mysterious temple. "All this savage land has always attracted and fascinated me," he says. "I am devoured by cinema and I devour cinema; I'm a cinema eater." But Taduesz Rozewicz, an eminent writer, admits this unique form of cooperation was a problem to him: "It is the presence of the other person not only in the process of writing, but at its very core, which is inserperable for me from absolute solitude." Some scenes the brothers wrote together; others were created by the writer himself, following discussions with the director. But from the perspective of time, it is "Birth Certificate", rather than "Echo" or "The Wicked Gate", that Taduesz describes as his most intimate film. This is understandable. The tradgey from September 1939 in Poland was for the Rozewicz brothers their personal "birth certificate". When working on the film, the director said "This time it is all about shaking off, getting rid of the psychological burden which the war was for all of us. ... Cooperation with my brother was in this case easier, as we share many war memories. We wanted to show to adult viewers a picture of war as seen by a child. ... In reality, it is the adults who created the real world of massacres. Children beheld the horrors coming back to life, exhumed from underneath the ground, overwhelming the earth."
The principle of composition of "Birth Certificate" is not obvious. When watching a novella film, we tend to think in terms of traditional theatre. We expect that a miniature story will finish with a sharp point; the three film novellas in Rozewicz's work lack this feature. We do not know what will be happen to the boy making his alone through the forest towards the end of "On the Road". We do not know whether in "Letter from the Camp", the help offered by the small heroes to a Soviet prisoner will rescue him from the unknown fate of his compatriots. The fate of the Jewish girl from "Drop of Blood" is also unclear. Will she keep her new impersonation as "Marysia Malinowska"? Or will the Nazis make her into a representative of the "Nordic race"? Those questions were asked by the director for a reason. He preceived war as chaos and perdition, and not as linear history that could be reflected in a plot. Although "Birth Certificate" is saturated with moral content, it does not aim to be a morality play. But with the immense pressure of reality, no varient of fate should be excluded. This approached can be compared wth Krzysztof Kieslowski's "Blind Chance" 25 years later, which pictured dramatic choices of a different era.
The film novella "On the Road" has a very sparing plot, but it drew special attention of the reviewers. The ominating overtone of the war films created by the Polish Film School at that time should be kept in mind. Mainly owing to Wajda, those films dealt with romantic heritage. They were permeated with pathos, bitterness, and irony. Rozewicz is an extraordinary artist. When narrating a story about a boy lost in a war zone, carrying some documents from the regiment office as if they were a treasure, the narrator in "On the Road" discovers rough prose where one should find poetry. And suddenly, the irrational touches this rather tame world. The boy, who until that moment resembled a Polish version of the Good Soldier Schweik, sets off, like Don Quixote, for his first and last battle. A critic described it as "an absurd gesture and someone else could surely use it to criticise the Polish style of dying. ... But the Rozewicz brothers do no accuse: they only compose an elegy for the picturesque peasant-soldier, probably the most important veteran of the Polish war of 1939-1945." "Birth Certificate" is not a lofty statement about national imponderabilia. The film reveals a plebeian perspective which Aleksander Jackieqicz once contrasted with those "lyrical lamentations" inherent in the Kordian tradition. However, a historical overview of Rozewicz's work shows that the distinctive style does not signify a fundamental difference in illustrating the Polish September. Just as the memorable scene from Wajda's "Lotna" was in fact an expression of desperation and distress, the same emotions permeate the final scene of "Birth Certificate". These are not ideological concepts, though once described as such and fervently debated, but rather psychological creations. In this specific case, observes Witold Zalewski, it is not about manifesting knightly pride, but about a gesture of a simple man who does not agree to be enslaved.
The novella "Drop of Blood" is, with Aleksander Ford's "Border Street", one of the first narrations of the fate of the Polish Jews during the Nazi occupation. The story about a girl literally looking for her place on earth has a dramatic dimension. Especially in the age of today's journalistic disputes, often manipulative, lacking in empathy and imbued with bad will, Rozewicz's story from the past shocks with its authenticity. The small herione of the story is the only one who survives a German raid on her family home. Physical survial does not, however, mean a return to normality. Her frightened departure from the rubbish dump that was her hideout lead her to a ruined apartment. Her walk around it is painful because still fresh signs of life are mixed with evidence of annihilation. Help is needed, but Mirka does not know anyone in the outside world. Her subsequent attempts express the state of the fugitive's spirits - from hope and faith, moving to doubt, a sense of oppression, and thickening fear, and finally to despair.
At the same time, the Jewish girl's search for refuge resembles the state of Polish society. The appearance of Mirka results in confusion, and later, trouble. This was already signalled by Rozewicz in an exceptional scene from "Letter from the Camp" in which the boy's neighbour, seeing a fugitive Russian soldier, retreats immediately, admitting that "Now, people worry only about themselves." Such embarassing excuses mask fear. During the occupation, no one feels safe. Neither social status not the aegis of a charity organisation protects against repression. We see the potential guardians of Mirka passing her back and forth among themselves. These are friendly hands but they cannot offer strong support. The story takes place on that thin line between solidarity and heroism. Solidarity arises spontaneously, but only some are capable of heroism. Help for the girl does not always result from compassion; sometimes it is based on past relations and personal ties (a neighbour of the doctor takes in the fugitive for a few days because of past friendship). Rozewicz portrays all of this in a subtle way; even the smallest gesture has significance. Take, for example, the conversation with a stranger on the train: short, as if jotted down on the margin, but so full of tension. And earlier, a peculiar examination of Polishness: the "Holy Father" prayer forced on Mirka by the village boys to check that she is not a Jew. Would not rising to the challenge mean a death sentance?
Viewed after many years, "Birth Certificate" discloses yet another quality that is not present in the works of the Polish School, but is prominent in later B-class war films. This is the picture of everyday life during the war and occupation outlined in the three novellas. It harmonises with the logic of speaking about "life after life". Small heroes of Rozewicz suddenly enter the reality of war, with no experience or scale with which to compare it. For them, the present is a natural extension of and at the same time a complete negation of the past. Consider the sleey small-town marketplace, through which armoured columns will shortly pass. Or meet the German motorcyclists, who look like aliens from outer space - a picture taken from an autopsy because this is how Stanislaw and Taduesz perceived the first Germans they ever met. Note the blurred silhouettes of people against a white wall who are being shot - at first they are shocking, but soon they will probably become a part of the grim landscape. In the city centre stands a prisoner camp on a sodden bog ("People perish likes flies; the bodies are transported during the night"); in the street the childern are running after a coal wagon to collect some precious pieces of fuel. There's a bustle around some food (a boy reproaches his younger brother's actions by singing: "The warrant officer's son is begging in front of the church? I'm going to tell mother!"); and the kitchen, which one evening becomes the proscenium of a real drama. And there are the symbols: a bar of chocolate forced upon a boy by a Wehrmacht soldier ("On the Road"); a pair of shoes belonging to Zbyszek's father which the boy spontaneously gives to a Russian fugitive; a priceless slice of bread, ground under the heel of a policeman in the guter ("Letters from the Camp"). As the director put it: "In every film, I communicate my own vision of the world and of the people. Only then the style follows, the defined way of experiencing things." In Birth Certificate, he adds, his approach was driven by the subject: "I attempted to create not only the texture of the document but also to add some poetic element. I know it is risky but as for the merger of documentation and poety, often hidden very deep, if only it manages to make its way onto the screen, it results in what can referred to as 'art'."
After 1945, there were numerous films created in Europe that dealt with war and children, including "Somewhere in Europe" ("Valahol Europaban", 1947 by Geza Radvanyi), "Shoeshine" ("Sciescia", 1946 by Vittorio de Sica), and "Childhood of Ivan" ("Iwanowo dietstwo" by Andriej Tarkowski). Yet there were fewer than one would expect. Pursuing a subject so imbued with sentimentalism requires stylistic disipline and a special ability to manage child actors. The author of "Birth Certificate" mastered both - and it was not by chance. Stanislaw Rozewicz was always the beneficent spirit of the film milieu; he could unite people around a common goal. He emanated peace and sensitivity, which flowed to his co-workers and pupils. A film, being a group work, necessitates some form of empathy - tuning in with others.
In a biographical documentary about Stanislaw Rozewicz entitled "Walking, Meeting" (1999 by Antoni Krauze), there is a beautiful scene when the director, after a few decades, meets Beata Barszczewska, who plays Mireczka in the novella "Drops of Blood". The woman falls into the arms of the elderly man. They are both moved. He wonders how many years have passed. She answers: "A few years. Not too many." And Rozewicz, with his characteristic smile says: "It is true. We spent this entire time together."
它仅仅是一支平平无奇的笔，但它被一次又一次的换上崭新的墨囊，重焕新的生命，它看似平淡无奇，但它却被成百上千的人用它那拙劣粗糙的笔尖去抒发那令人多愁善感的百变情绪。——心翼文学社·王婧
后疫情时代年轻人画像，工作不顺心也不能辞，爱上已婚女性也要爱着，因为自己的生存能力不如对方，虽叫黎明时分的年轻人，但当今年轻人的黎明还不知何时出现，冲破黑暗的勇气都日渐消亡了。
挺喜欢这种节奏的电影，循环递进层层深入，但这电影质量本身就差了。
所以，到底是咋回事？？？但是最后作家和妹妹在一起，还是挺让人崩溃的。
TIFF2021 #8: 没有《新秩序》那么what the f***，但也挺what the f***的
反正一个突然主流的结尾就差点意思
对平淡平常和心底的反叛的表现特别朴实到位真实无比
挺好的，同态复仇式的结局很合我这种落后红脖子的胃口。
45/ 电影名字我很喜欢 生命终结的时候就像sundown平静又绚烂 名利金钱甚至家人也不再那么重要了 只是平静的做喜欢的事情喝酒做爱享受这世界最后的阳光
迷你型《五路追杀令》+《血溅十三号警署》；最好的段落都围绕着托比·哈斯展开，反倒是格里罗和巴特勒两位男主皆未能突破既往形象；对动作片倾注了巨大的创作热情，且在精心设计动作场面外还保持着足够的叙事趣味的乔·卡纳汉，此次的发挥只能算是及格。
有钱人的任性、不顾一切、潇洒放纵，令人羡慕。直至结尾，夜间城市街道游走、阳光下的海浪、椅子上的衬衫、地上的鞋子，给全片做了一个很好的总结——虚无。
打不死的老家伙，喋喋不休的各种人，小偷小摸的好人和变态话痨杀手，所以是一部西部片，最后的燃烧镜头都是PS的，好假。
Tim Roth的演技真好啊，那双眼睛代他说了好多好多。可能令人惊艳的点就在于离奇的那一刹吧，剩下的，只有平淡和空虚。
也许是有意为之，缺少弧光的角色使其活动的环境，即墨西哥，成为影片最大的主角。我们跟随男主的轨迹进入墨西哥社会的各个剖面（高档度假村、平民海滩、监狱、医院、午夜的首都街道），在主角的遭遇里深感人与环境和自我的疏离：表层的——因不懂语言、不解风情而产生的与异文化的疏离；深层的——人与人之间无法沟通的隔阂；本质的——内心深处探寻生命意义时的无力。
3.5/5 | 弗兰克为数不多注满隐喻的电影，开始式结构为角色和各种符号的解读带来多重角度，怎么说全看观众立场。觉得它有趣的会特别喜欢，觉得它无聊的会相当厌恶。
一个身为曾被称作日不落帝国的男人的日落人生。有符号堆砌，比如猪，衣服，甚至某些人物本身。有莫名其妙的调度，比如步行与空镜。还有一些弗兰克一贯不高明的叙事技巧，比如隐瞒内情，比如突然暴力。这些枪击抢劫的暴力，又可以看做是阶级话题的残片，但如果拿前作《新秩序》来比的话，这部完全不是墨西哥主题电影，而是描写范围更广的，关于资本主义秩序下某个代表性个体淡然的溃逃。蒂姆·罗斯无疑是资本主义缩影，断然要剥离一整个社会关系，包括新情人，而很可能的原因就是癌症。患上癌症的资本主义本身就在暗示经济危机，所以这是一部彻头彻尾的资本主义批判电影——用存在主义和虚无主义做影像的合法性依据——非再如以前那样立足墨西哥一国的社会问题。但弗兰克若想将这种批判执行地更生动彻底，还是要多学学布努埃尔和奥尔特曼。
不断的火化和不断的厄运，更多的巧合即是有意，留给观者对恶的想象空间是此悬疑片的高明之处
你要怎样拯救一个故事一步步一步步 步入俗套？（Yvan给你家Charlotte养胖一点好吗 岁痕美不能过度啊。螺丝叔这两年的角色真就一点突破都没
黑岛结菜姑娘真是我的菜，但男主真的太丑太土了，那个嘴巴，天
这部与本届威尼斯同场竞技的《暗处的女儿》有意想不到的交集，同样是（反）度假电影类型，同样以一位深藏不露的主人公展开叙事。导演将主人公塑造成陷于加缪式存在主义危机的角色，再次使出《慢性》中用过的隐藏叙事关键的手法，在反常规的情节里操控着观众的注意力。一闪而过的暴力刻画并未揭开墨西哥社会问题的症结，连其后的监狱戏也稍显潦草。生硬出现的动物镜头并非高级隐喻，有偷懒嫌疑；最后的揭秘毫无必要，立刻拉低了影片的好感度。
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