ON THE SILVER GLOBE

“It’s rarely less than mesmerizing in its strangeness, and in its kinetic intensity. The film is a staggering feat of mise en scène: heaven knows how many hundreds or thousands of extras are involved, most of them accoutred in fanciful costumes by Magdalena Teslawska, redolent of some avant-garde hippie carnival. (...) Both clothing and makeup have a remarkable tactility: we become very aware of the texture of rubber, feathers, fabric, prosthetic scars, and peeling face paint. (...) Then there’s Andrzej Jaroszewicz’s extraordinary camerawork, using extreme wide-angle lenses much of the time, and constantly moving. (...) We’re constantly reminded that we’re watching cinema.” (FILM COMMENT)