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."
感觉看了一篇音乐剧版的特稿，关于信仰的小段落最打动我
故事内容的立意大概拔高了影片的口碑分数。
“我觉得，这整个理念的意义要比这个大得多，试想一下，如果它对所有人都适用，没有任何羞耻感，没有任何评判，那将是多么文明的事情。”
1⃣️最后非要去调查人家真实身份想要帮助人家就有点多余了哈，非常“女/母性”，总以为可以改变/拯救男人2⃣️话痨片，我的爱，感谢电影，又对我脑中“女性找男技师话题”拓展了新的视角3⃣️Nancy的解放日记，万岁！4⃣️男主太帅太帅了好性感，期待更多作品，大火吧！
姐姐真是可爱又勇敢，能有这样的电影才是自由的地方。
最后问题解决了吗？还是里奥·格兰德通过救赎fantasy完成了南希的想象呢？
最近看过最好看的电影了 我真的钟爱话痨片 男主好有魅力 我如果有钱我也点他！
一部关于爱、欲、和满足的喜剧片。艾玛·汤普森饰演的55岁寡妇Nancy Stokes迫切渴望冒险、人类联结和性，渴望她人生中第一次很棒的性爱。丈夫Robert给了她住宅、家庭和看起来像样的生活，然而他已经走了，如今Nancy觉得“连有些修女都比我性生活更 丰富”，她一向是行动派，且当过老师，相当有条理，于是她马上开始实施计划：做了一些研究之后，Nancy雇佣了一个20岁出头的性心理治疗师Leo Grande，准备重启对自己身体的认识。
发出我活了二十几年的最大疑问： 小伙子一小时多少钱🥵🥵🥵 （婶还是在发光啊我爱她！） 看得过程一直咬嘴唇 说正经的，文戏真好，完全可以改改换到戏在剧场演
几个印象深刻的地方： ①关于真实边界的冲突，leo的愤怒 ② shaved.即使往坦荡迈了一大步，it's still shaved! ③ pay taxes on her earnings
太棒了！演技全程在线，当对情感状态和人物心理不甚理解时，剧情表现会一次次让你感到意外和牛逼，多理想主义的关系，多感人的交流，我们都需要对自己进行回顾和突破，最好的自己可能是自己想象不到的模样
Jenn Coletta真的太绝了呜呜呜。
感谢流媒体，both Apple TV+和b站，让我不花钱就能看到了现场还原。一波人来回切换角色，非常厉害，设计转场都不容易，语言信息多建议二刷，但更多是在陈述，歌曲的存在感真的不多了，群舞时候的氛围还是很好，被I am islander成功洗脑。另外，它可能本身对于美国人的意义要远大于我们，所以我还不能做到那么的共情。
五星怒赞！一剂极度舒适的精神春药。内核还是与自己和解！话痨片真的可以拍得很好看！请洪常秀、伍迪艾伦学着点吧。
那无人知晓的地方。
封闭空间的作品毫无疑问人物要设置对，一个近乎理想化的秘密情人 一个教宗教学的假哈姆雷特式中学老师，有揭露回忆有矛盾有和解，剧作上节奏也是极好 至少不无聊。问题就在于性与道德这个脱不了干系两角，就如同后面打破幻想一般，你不知道你眼前这个人他会如何重塑你们当下的行为呢，而如此避谈，一是篇幅的确展不开，二则是暴露了作为寓言体去讨论但实则是灌输的形式。由此必然要考虑所谓的人物设置，也由此暴露了他所为新精品电影以保守中产女性作为目标这一属性，消解那些所谓“性化”的元素是为了否定性的承认先验的观点—我们都难以享受性并且性是生命源泉，而输出这一观点最大的悖论就在于排除一切社会因素却又必要的让人在社会中渴望它，排除必然的社会性却又妄图在真实中引用此种虚幻，而它女性向的打法最后只会失落于真实想象中
很欧洲的片子，什么题材都要立意深刻，上价值。虽然……但还是被退休年龄段的老太与90后年轻小鲜肉的这对30多岁年龄差的大尺度震惊到了
一輩子有好多束縛，掙脫桎梏真的很難。看完覺得很感動，Emma和這個男生的化學反應出奇的不錯。｜和K，她說看完她甚至覺得性工作者真的應該合法化。我說，不，這只是電影，所以很理想很美好。真實的大環境下，合法化只會進一步加深對女性的剝削。
“我觉得，这整个理念的意义要比这个大得多，试想一下，如果它对所有人都适用，没有任何羞耻感，没有任何评判，那将是多么文明的事情。”
【I watched it, I got it. I never review it.】
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