Pornografia 2003

Username or Email Address. Remember Me. Two intellectuals, a writer and a director, begin to play a mysterious psychological game in a peaceful countryside manor house during the Nazi occupation. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly.

Cate Blanchett shares her list of films to inspire hope in support of the UN Refugee Agency to assist those without a place to call home amidst our global health crisis. See Cate's Picks. Polish countryside during WWII: Witold, the narrator, is at a gathering of his intellectual artist friends in Warsaw, where he meets Frederick, a mysterious, but charming, stranger. They hit it off, so he invites Frederick along as he goes to visit the home of his friend Hipolit and his wife Maria. Witold and Frederick become obsessed with arranging the coupling of Hipolit's beautiful teenage daughter, Henia, and an equally beautiful young man, Karol, who is working at the farm. But Henia is engaged to Vaclav, who is visiting with his deeply religious mother, Amelia. As the two middle-aged gentlemen scheme, Germans fight with the Polish resistance, led by Siemian, in the woods nearby.

But punishment soon followed. The latest film by Polish director Jan Jakub Kolski, which centres around a manager who, after suffering great pain, withdraws to the forest, is being shown at the 18th Lecce European Film Festival. A woman over 40 has a passionate affair with a Russian man, who appears in her life just as suddenly and mysteriously as he disappears, in the new film by Jan Jakub Kolski Jasminum and Producer Antoine de Clermont Tonnerre was yesterday elected president of Unifrance, the promotional agency for French film abroad. He replaces Margaret Menegoz, who had occupied the post since

P ornografia is probably not the novel that would first come to mind if one sought literary material fit for a cinematic adaptation. Both Gombrowicz and Jakub Jan Kolski, the man who accepted the challenge and turned words into images, share such misgivings and have described the novel as being uncinematic 1. Witold, who narrates the story, becomes infatuated with Henia and Karol, two adolescents who are at first merely acquainted with one another, but soon turned into companions in intrigues and betrayals orchestrated by Witold and Fryderyk. Their perverse goal is to exploit Henia and Karol first out of sheer curiosity nurtured by erotic undertones, then to reach concrete but equally contemptible goals like killing Siemian, a Polish officer gone mad, or destroying the relationship between Henia and her substantially older fiance Vaclav — to Witold and Fryderyk, the planned marriage between Vaclav and Henia betrays the natural bond between her and Karol and is to be averted at all costs.