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Lessons of a Dead Language

Lekcja martwego języka

Directed by Janusz Majewski
Poland, 1979
Drama

Synopsis

An officer stationed in a remote Galician outpost at the end of the First World War is dying of consumption. Suffering from feverish dreams and hallucinations, he begins to collect religious art and attends seances.

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  • Kuja's rating of the film Lessons of a Dead Language

    Kuja

    Found not a single review about this movie - not even in Letterboxd. It recalls the words of Robert Bresson that film art should be both abstract and suggestive at the same time. The costume is amazing: note the uhlan's uniforms. Half Franz Kafka (in the disease aspect) and half Dino Buzzati (by the waiting factor). Interesting philosophical reflection on death, bordering on nihilism ("being in non-existence").

    September 26, 2018 16:14

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