Intermediality and Reflexivity in Andrzej Zulawskis Fidelity
Intermediality and Reflexivity in Andrzej Zulawskis Fidelity

Summary/Abstract: The paper focuses on a characteristic of Andrzej ĩU‘AWSKIS aesthetics which has been ignored by most of the critics who emphasized the impact of surrealism and the taste for provocation in his cinema. Meanwhile, THE“ OUVRES FRENCH PERIOD IS OBVIOUSLY CHARACTERIZED BY SELF REFLEXIVITY AND MEDIA REFLEXIVITY AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL AND LITERARY BACKGROUND REFERENCES )N THESE lLM DRAMAS THE TOPIC OF LOVE BEAUTY AND ARTISTIC VALUES ARE interconnected with a sophisticated narrative strategy using intermediality and intertextuality in a complex way. In Fidelity (La Fidelité, 2000), ĩU‘ AWSKI PUT PHOTOGRAPHY AND LITERATURE IN FOCUS AGAIN IN ORDER TO EXPRESS thoughts and emotions in their complexity, surpassing the limitations of the linear narrative. A certain semiotic double-codedness is provided by either intertextual references or the hidden meanings based on the symbolic LANGUAGE OF mOWERS USED AS DIEGETIC METAPHORS -OREOVER ĩU‘AWSKI thematizes photography that makes us conscious of our experiences from an aesthetic distance, even in an ironic manner.

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