ON THE SILVER GLOBE
Genre
Science Fiction, Drama
Language
VOSTA
Duration
166
Rating
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PARC AT MIDNIGHT: STAFF PICKS
Selected by Laura, customer service staff member :
“While the film world has its eyes fixed on Nolan’s The Odyssey, I wanted to propose a different kind of adventure. Stranger, riskier, maybe a little more rough around the edges. I also like the idea of highlighting a film that hasn’t had an easy journey. On the Silver Globe was halted by censorship and spent years in limbo before finally being shown to audiences. At a time when the world sometimes feels like it is closing in on itself, and authoritarian reflexes are reappearing in many places, I find it comforting to celebrate a work that refused to disappear. Maybe that’s also what midnight cinema is all about: giving a second life — and, above all, a voice — to films considered too strange, too ambitious, or too unsettling.!”
Synopsis: A team of astronauts land on an inhabitable planet and form a society. Many years later, a single astronaut is sent to the planet and becomes a messiah.
“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)
Directed by
Andrzej Zulawski
Actors
Andrzej Seweryn, Jerzy Trela, Iwona Bielska
Country
Poland
Version
Original w/English subtitles
Release year
1988