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      Success Is the Best Revenge

      R 1984 1 hr. 30 min. Drama List
      Reviews 17% Fewer than 50 Ratings Audience Score An exiled Polish director (Michael York) lives in London with his rebellious son (Michael Lyndon), who is eager to explore his heritage. Read More Read Less

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      pierce k the movie is average in my opinion to be honest. also there's nothing really good about the movie and i was disappointed. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 04/07/23 Full Review Audience Member "Success Is the Best Revenge" was Skolimowski's follow-up and companion-piece to "Moonlighting." Both films are London-set; both are explicit reactions to the political crisis in Poland and General Jaruzelski's declaration of martial law; and both feature quintessentially English actors playing Poles. In other respects, however, no two Skolimowski films could be further apart. You could say that on Moonlighting Skolimowski was on his best behaviour: it's a perfectly controlled, evenly toned gem that achieves its aims with the minimum of effects and the maximum of effectiveness. "Success" is another beast entirely. Chronology gets shuffled, any coherent driving narrative is deliberately fragmented, individual scenes can appear abstracted and disconnected from the film as a whole, and distorted and ambient sounds will be brought in and out to obscure snatches of explanatory dialogue. It's tempting to call it a stylistic mess and be done with it. But one wonders if there is some deeper purpose for the film's narrative obliqueness. Unfortunately,I was unable to divine such a purpose. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Richard Brody New Yorker With a florid style and a pugnacious tone, Skolimowski evokes the tangled paradoxes of freedom and the illusions of nostalgia alike. Jan 18, 2021 Full Review Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews The pic merges political strife with domestic strife, which produces some far-reaching sparks. Rated: B Apr 11, 2013 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Synopsis An exiled Polish director (Michael York) lives in London with his rebellious son (Michael Lyndon), who is eager to explore his heritage.
      Director
      Jerzy Skolimowski
      Screenwriter
      Jerzy Skolimowski, Michael Lyndon
      Production Co
      Gaumont, Ministère de la Culture
      Rating
      R
      Genre
      Drama
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Streaming)
      May 23, 2017
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