The latest film from Polish master Andrzej Wajda (KATYN, part of AFI's 2008 EU Film Showcase) is built on a hybrid, experimental structure necessitated by the sudden illness and death of lead actress Krystyna Janda's husband Edward Klosinski during shooting (Klosinski was the cinematographer on Wajda's films MAN OF MARBLE and MAN OF IRON, both starring Janda.) The adaptation of a story by Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz, about a doctor's wife in 1950s Poland who, having lost her two sons to the war, becomes dangerously infatuated with a young man, is intercut with Janda's own personal monologue about love and loss.

DIR/SCR Andrzej Wajda; SCR based on the short story by Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz; PROD Michal Kwiecinski. Poland, 2009, color, 85 min. In Polish with English subtitles. NOT RATED

Saturday, November 7, 5:00; Tuesday, November 10, 7:05

AFI Member passes will be accepted.

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