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Playing from Plates (1995)
Director: Jan Jakub Kolski
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From Time Out Film Guide
Kolski's enigmatic mix of fantastic allegory, mystic fairytale, and bucolic comedy tosses together a crew of peasant weirdos - an elderly farmer visited by the Angel of Death, a dwarf would-be nurse whom he saves from suicide, a two-faced 'monster' who lives at the bottom of his well, and a mad fiddler who 'reads' shards of crockery as inspiration for his fatally hypnotic rhapsodies - to create a meandering Beauty and the Beast-style parable about the transforming power of love. Ludicrous, for sure, and not, as far as one can gather, politically correct or progressive; still, the sheer, wayward inventiveness of the whole thing ensures a certain oddball appeal.Author: GA
Cast & crew
Director: Jan Jakub Kolski
Producer: Grzegorz Warchol
Cast: Dojnica Paladiuk, Krzysztof Pieczynski, Mariusz Saniternik, Franciszek Pieczka, Grazyna Blecka-Kolska full cast
Duration: 107 mins
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