Barrier
Bariera
Poland
1966
77 Min
Black and White
Polish
Synopsis
The hero of the film, a medical undergraduate, decides to give up his studies as he thinks that his marriage to a rich girl will provide him with substantial means for good living which as a doctor he could achieve only through many self-denials and hard work over many years. —BFI
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Jerzy Skolimowski
Jerzy Skolimowski (born May 5, 1938) is a Polish film director, screenwriter, dramatist and actor. A graduate of the prestigious Polish Film School in Łódź, Skolimowski has directed more than twenty films since his 1960 début Oko wykol (The Menacing Eye). He lived in Los Angeles where he painted in a figurative, expressionist mode and acted occasionally in films. More recently, he began dividing his time between the US and Poland and returned to film making as a writer and director after a 17 year hiatus with Four Nights With Anna (Cztery noce z Anna) in 2008.
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T. J. Harman
26Feb12
Skolimowski distilled his most warped, communism-induced fever dream on screen here. Criterion needs to add this to their catalogue.
Răpciune
19Nov11
it's never ending. i've watched it and felt like the end was left aside, still in progress, in hot debate, in an incipient phase of being conceptualized, shyly dabbed at. i watch it again and it still has no end. it refuses it, as if conventional structure and circularity of plot is naive and can be cast off with the natural and necessary gesture of a snake shedding its skin.
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