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Moonlighting (1982)

Director: Jerzy Skolimowski

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From Time Out Film Guide

Conceived and made with an urgency appropriate to the December 1981 military clampdown on Skolimowski's native Poland, this film is a characteristically oblique and quirky response. Displacement rather than confrontation is the key, with a group of Polish builders busy renovating their boss' London house when the axe falls at home. Irons plays their leader, the only English speaker, who is forced into a parody of twisted labour relations when he decides to conceal the news from his co-workers. But the tendency towards allegory is pleasingly offset by an alienated vision of the English daily round: a farcical and surreal mixture of frustration, deception and shoplifting. The result is as much about 'us' as 'them'; and constitutes a quietly disturbing, often sharply amusing, flip side to Wajda's men of marble and iron.

Author: SJ 0000-00-00 00:00:00

Time Out Film Guide

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  • Derek said...
    Posted on Jul 12 2008 00:02 Incredible. Artistic, disturbing, and terrifying. An incredible original experience. One you'll never forget.
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Cast & crew

Director: Jerzy Skolimowski

Producer: Mark Shivas, Jerzy Skolimowski

Cast: Jeremy Irons, Eugene Lipinski, Jiri Stanislav, Eugeniusz Haczkiewicz, Denis Holmes, Jenny Seagrove, Jerzy Skolimowski full cast

Duration: 97 mins


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