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Monday, May 12, 2008

ASHES AND DIAMONDS (1958)

Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda must have toured the film fests with KANAL, his previous film, as this follow up is as stylistically up-to-date as a late ‘50s pic could be. Alas, the style feels more applied than integral. The last in Wajda’s WWII trilogy, follows two resistance survivors ordered to kill two Kremlin-groomed Poles after mistakenly gunning down two innocents. But Zbigniew Cybulski (Poland’s very own James Dean and just as self-indulgent an actor) as the younger assassin, inconveniently falls in love & no longer wants to kill. You can grant ASHES its international rep without thinking much of it.

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