"Pożegnania" - z czym się żegna Wojciech J. Has?
'Farewells' – What does Wojciech J. has did Adieu tO?

Summary/Abstract: Wojciech Jerzy Has began to reflect on the structure of time with his film 'Farewells'. The director was having a poetic dialogue, lined with irony, with the national tradition and prose of Stanisław Dygat when he made a film that entered the canon of the Polish school, but at the same time stayed on the sidelines. Has was more interested in searching for lost time and observing how people, places and things had vanished than in History. The love affair of the film heroine and hero, Lidka and Paweł, is almost literally run over by the column of Soviet tanks in the closing scenes of the film. What mattered more was the game the pair was playing when they met each other and parted – it’s almost a sophisticated waste of new chances… Thematically, 'Farewells' paves the way to 'How to Be Loved' whereas stylistically to 'The Hourglass Sanatorium'. In many respects, 'Farewells' is a match for the two masterpieces.

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