Wojaczek

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Audience Member Many of Lech Majewski's films have a very polished look, Wojaczek is not one of them; it's a very raw look at the last months of the life of the Polish poet Rafal Wojaczek told in gritty and contrast-heavy black & white. The film does retain some spectacular camera work, smooth tracking shots revealing information, and belying the chaotic life Wojaczek choose to live. Majewski saw a similarity between Wojaczek and Jean-Michel Basquiat - whom he was friends with - and shepherded Basquiat through preproduction before losing the film to Julian Schnabel, and then took on the Wojaczek project. While the film does not glory in the poet's self-destructive nature, neither does it shy away from it, depicting events is an honest manner, lending further to the rawness of the film. There may be little sympathy to be seen for a man like Wojaczek, Majewski never laid on the sentimentality either, he wasn't trying to trick people into liking the man who was the voice of many young Poles in the 60s and 70s. Majewski choose not to focus much on the Wojaczek's words and more on the spiraling downfall, which may leave some with little knowledge of Wojaczek to question why such a character is being brought to the screen, but the man is very much cut from the same cloth as many hard-drinking, hard-living writers over the centuries. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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