In 1961, Stanislaw Rozewicz created the novella film "Birth Certificate" in cooperation with his brother, Taduesz Rozewicz as screenwriter. Such brother tandems are rare in the history of film but aside from family ties, Stanislaw (born in 1924) and Taduesz (born in 1921) were mutually bound by their love for the cinema. They were born and grew up in Radomsk, a small town which had "its madmen and its saints" and most importanly, the "Kinema" cinema, as Stanislaw recalls: for him cinema is "heaven, the whole world, enchantment". Tadeusz says he considers cinema both a charming market stall and a mysterious temple. "All this savage land has always attracted and fascinated me," he says. "I am devoured by cinema and I devour cinema; I'm a cinema eater." But Taduesz Rozewicz, an eminent writer, admits this unique form of cooperation was a problem to him: "It is the presence of the other person not only in the process of writing, but at its very core, which is inserperable for me from absolute solitude." Some scenes the brothers wrote together; others were created by the writer himself, following discussions with the director. But from the perspective of time, it is "Birth Certificate", rather than "Echo" or "The Wicked Gate", that Taduesz describes as his most intimate film. This is understandable. The tradgey from September 1939 in Poland was for the Rozewicz brothers their personal "birth certificate". When working on the film, the director said "This time it is all about shaking off, getting rid of the psychological burden which the war was for all of us. ... Cooperation with my brother was in this case easier, as we share many war memories. We wanted to show to adult viewers a picture of war as seen by a child. ... In reality, it is the adults who created the real world of massacres. Children beheld the horrors coming back to life, exhumed from underneath the ground, overwhelming the earth."
The principle of composition of "Birth Certificate" is not obvious. When watching a novella film, we tend to think in terms of traditional theatre. We expect that a miniature story will finish with a sharp point; the three film novellas in Rozewicz's work lack this feature. We do not know what will be happen to the boy making his alone through the forest towards the end of "On the Road". We do not know whether in "Letter from the Camp", the help offered by the small heroes to a Soviet prisoner will rescue him from the unknown fate of his compatriots. The fate of the Jewish girl from "Drop of Blood" is also unclear. Will she keep her new impersonation as "Marysia Malinowska"? Or will the Nazis make her into a representative of the "Nordic race"? Those questions were asked by the director for a reason. He preceived war as chaos and perdition, and not as linear history that could be reflected in a plot. Although "Birth Certificate" is saturated with moral content, it does not aim to be a morality play. But with the immense pressure of reality, no varient of fate should be excluded. This approached can be compared wth Krzysztof Kieslowski's "Blind Chance" 25 years later, which pictured dramatic choices of a different era.
The film novella "On the Road" has a very sparing plot, but it drew special attention of the reviewers. The ominating overtone of the war films created by the Polish Film School at that time should be kept in mind. Mainly owing to Wajda, those films dealt with romantic heritage. They were permeated with pathos, bitterness, and irony. Rozewicz is an extraordinary artist. When narrating a story about a boy lost in a war zone, carrying some documents from the regiment office as if they were a treasure, the narrator in "On the Road" discovers rough prose where one should find poetry. And suddenly, the irrational touches this rather tame world. The boy, who until that moment resembled a Polish version of the Good Soldier Schweik, sets off, like Don Quixote, for his first and last battle. A critic described it as "an absurd gesture and someone else could surely use it to criticise the Polish style of dying. ... But the Rozewicz brothers do no accuse: they only compose an elegy for the picturesque peasant-soldier, probably the most important veteran of the Polish war of 1939-1945." "Birth Certificate" is not a lofty statement about national imponderabilia. The film reveals a plebeian perspective which Aleksander Jackieqicz once contrasted with those "lyrical lamentations" inherent in the Kordian tradition. However, a historical overview of Rozewicz's work shows that the distinctive style does not signify a fundamental difference in illustrating the Polish September. Just as the memorable scene from Wajda's "Lotna" was in fact an expression of desperation and distress, the same emotions permeate the final scene of "Birth Certificate". These are not ideological concepts, though once described as such and fervently debated, but rather psychological creations. In this specific case, observes Witold Zalewski, it is not about manifesting knightly pride, but about a gesture of a simple man who does not agree to be enslaved.
The novella "Drop of Blood" is, with Aleksander Ford's "Border Street", one of the first narrations of the fate of the Polish Jews during the Nazi occupation. The story about a girl literally looking for her place on earth has a dramatic dimension. Especially in the age of today's journalistic disputes, often manipulative, lacking in empathy and imbued with bad will, Rozewicz's story from the past shocks with its authenticity. The small herione of the story is the only one who survives a German raid on her family home. Physical survial does not, however, mean a return to normality. Her frightened departure from the rubbish dump that was her hideout lead her to a ruined apartment. Her walk around it is painful because still fresh signs of life are mixed with evidence of annihilation. Help is needed, but Mirka does not know anyone in the outside world. Her subsequent attempts express the state of the fugitive's spirits - from hope and faith, moving to doubt, a sense of oppression, and thickening fear, and finally to despair.
At the same time, the Jewish girl's search for refuge resembles the state of Polish society. The appearance of Mirka results in confusion, and later, trouble. This was already signalled by Rozewicz in an exceptional scene from "Letter from the Camp" in which the boy's neighbour, seeing a fugitive Russian soldier, retreats immediately, admitting that "Now, people worry only about themselves." Such embarassing excuses mask fear. During the occupation, no one feels safe. Neither social status not the aegis of a charity organisation protects against repression. We see the potential guardians of Mirka passing her back and forth among themselves. These are friendly hands but they cannot offer strong support. The story takes place on that thin line between solidarity and heroism. Solidarity arises spontaneously, but only some are capable of heroism. Help for the girl does not always result from compassion; sometimes it is based on past relations and personal ties (a neighbour of the doctor takes in the fugitive for a few days because of past friendship). Rozewicz portrays all of this in a subtle way; even the smallest gesture has significance. Take, for example, the conversation with a stranger on the train: short, as if jotted down on the margin, but so full of tension. And earlier, a peculiar examination of Polishness: the "Holy Father" prayer forced on Mirka by the village boys to check that she is not a Jew. Would not rising to the challenge mean a death sentance?
Viewed after many years, "Birth Certificate" discloses yet another quality that is not present in the works of the Polish School, but is prominent in later B-class war films. This is the picture of everyday life during the war and occupation outlined in the three novellas. It harmonises with the logic of speaking about "life after life". Small heroes of Rozewicz suddenly enter the reality of war, with no experience or scale with which to compare it. For them, the present is a natural extension of and at the same time a complete negation of the past. Consider the sleey small-town marketplace, through which armoured columns will shortly pass. Or meet the German motorcyclists, who look like aliens from outer space - a picture taken from an autopsy because this is how Stanislaw and Taduesz perceived the first Germans they ever met. Note the blurred silhouettes of people against a white wall who are being shot - at first they are shocking, but soon they will probably become a part of the grim landscape. In the city centre stands a prisoner camp on a sodden bog ("People perish likes flies; the bodies are transported during the night"); in the street the childern are running after a coal wagon to collect some precious pieces of fuel. There's a bustle around some food (a boy reproaches his younger brother's actions by singing: "The warrant officer's son is begging in front of the church? I'm going to tell mother!"); and the kitchen, which one evening becomes the proscenium of a real drama. And there are the symbols: a bar of chocolate forced upon a boy by a Wehrmacht soldier ("On the Road"); a pair of shoes belonging to Zbyszek's father which the boy spontaneously gives to a Russian fugitive; a priceless slice of bread, ground under the heel of a policeman in the guter ("Letters from the Camp"). As the director put it: "In every film, I communicate my own vision of the world and of the people. Only then the style follows, the defined way of experiencing things." In Birth Certificate, he adds, his approach was driven by the subject: "I attempted to create not only the texture of the document but also to add some poetic element. I know it is risky but as for the merger of documentation and poety, often hidden very deep, if only it manages to make its way onto the screen, it results in what can referred to as 'art'."
After 1945, there were numerous films created in Europe that dealt with war and children, including "Somewhere in Europe" ("Valahol Europaban", 1947 by Geza Radvanyi), "Shoeshine" ("Sciescia", 1946 by Vittorio de Sica), and "Childhood of Ivan" ("Iwanowo dietstwo" by Andriej Tarkowski). Yet there were fewer than one would expect. Pursuing a subject so imbued with sentimentalism requires stylistic disipline and a special ability to manage child actors. The author of "Birth Certificate" mastered both - and it was not by chance. Stanislaw Rozewicz was always the beneficent spirit of the film milieu; he could unite people around a common goal. He emanated peace and sensitivity, which flowed to his co-workers and pupils. A film, being a group work, necessitates some form of empathy - tuning in with others.
In a biographical documentary about Stanislaw Rozewicz entitled "Walking, Meeting" (1999 by Antoni Krauze), there is a beautiful scene when the director, after a few decades, meets Beata Barszczewska, who plays Mireczka in the novella "Drops of Blood". The woman falls into the arms of the elderly man. They are both moved. He wonders how many years have passed. She answers: "A few years. Not too many." And Rozewicz, with his characteristic smile says: "It is true. We spent this entire time together."
视角选题立意都很好 很喜欢导演的态度 客观展现事实并尊重个人选择 一直偏好这种有意义的影片 反映现实问题并引人思考 期待导演下一部影片
在游荡者这个题材里拍得算差的吧。无论是趣味性还是批判性，都不能和《拾穗者》相比啊。无论是表演还是镜头都完全脱离了这个题材所应该有的现实感。只是人与人的分别那几场戏稍微有点触动。（我还蛮喜欢这个女主的，但她应该凭其它电影拿奖）前几天有个美国新闻，说洛杉矶市区为了搞奥斯卡庆典，驱离了那里的无家可归者，这个讽刺新闻还挺配这个电影的。
虽然和克隆和个体之间达成了和解，也和自己和解，但是就算有百分之九十九的相似，也有一些细微的改变，比如爱狗变成怕狗，更多的还有什么都是未知的，甚至一些我们自己都不知道的，就是有这些存在，才让个体独特，所以再像也不是那个人了。
如果现在还在洛杉矶，应该会坐在二手丰田上看这部关于车里生活人的电影吧。Nomad, 老年女性，especially in the time of Covid ... 赵婷熟悉的边缘感真是戳到了美国的痛处，但 Fern 的坚韧 & "see you down the road" 的心态或是 …… 暂缓的解药，对普通人而言吧，就整个社会而言症结就更复杂了。
我说女主角是绝望老太专业户妙就笑了。苦逼的现实主义，情感永远是沉沦着的。
没想到是很浪漫化的旅途。。就是觉得不明所以。这种生活方式是主动的选择还是被动的？
8.5/10。①没有房子的房车客女主四处流浪的现代游牧生活，也在过程中被遇到的人们治愈。②通过生活流叙事、舒适的音响、颓废灰冷却又美而散漫的高水平摄影美术等营造了疏冷又浪漫的氛围。③大量运用非职演增强写实感。④对影像元素的调用水准还有提升空间（剪辑和叙事节奏等）。⑤女主有家却因种种原因而待不住，赵婷又何尝不是呢？
第三部作品 就已经能一窥 赵婷 本人的风格了 摄影上的别致 关注西部边缘人物 辽阔的室外远景与逼仄的室内（这里是车内）近景的结合 不得不说 视听 情绪与文本结合得相当自然 具有打动人的力量和沉浸式的体验 虽个人审美上 并不喜欢这样充满学院派范儿的影片 但还是承认其成熟后的沉稳与肉眼可见的进步 另外 配乐也是亮眼的点缀8.2
她应该买张直飞上海或香港的机票，来当英语老师，同时满足流浪和挣钱的需求（最近看完美国电影，都油然升起一股民族自豪感是咋回事。。这种日子，给我钱我都过不来，我需要畅通无阻的wifi和抽水马桶，要是能叫外卖就更好了哇哈哈哈。。）配乐很美，结尾可以再利索点
我拥抱更多的记忆，但陪伴我每天的只有那一份，一切看来那么实感的温暖都不是我可以拥有的。
勘破三春景不长,绍衣顿改昔年妆。
You choose your path and you take all the consequences.还是挺能感同身受的，没有safty net的生活状态，也不是说毫无选择，是我自己选择了这样的生活方式，音乐好听，还想到了kate bush的coral room，不晓得为啥
金球奖落下帷幕，无依之地成为最大赢家，除了斩获最佳剧情电影，赵婷也获得了最佳导演……在我看，这部电影足以和Charles Chaplin的《Modern Times》比肩，都是在讲经济大萧条之下的人性光辉大爱无言。弗朗西斯-麦克多蒙德和“漂泊者”之间的互助就像Chaplin和孤女，彼此帮扶亲密无间，并且全部都坚信希望之光就在眼前。奥斯卡影后沧桑的面容很富有年代感，她追逐着季节更换工作频繁，与《Modern Times》的Chaplin异曲同工即便相隔近百年！
大了已经不太爱看这种消沉吧啦飘忽不定的片子了，放十年前可能比较喜欢。。想起在美国的自驾旅行，只是每一秒都是开心的
音乐和旷野调动的情绪，又见篝火；无家者的孤独来自环境和亲人，我们把生活或背景视为一道边界，拓荒者在现代或游牧夹层中走走停停的所有经历，是寻找心灵荒漠绿洲，建立属于所有边缘的少数群体文化、信仰的基石
前一个小时觉得此片不过是技术上相对于《骑士》更成熟了，剪辑更优秀，有些画面快刀斩乱麻的舒爽。后一个小时渐入佳境。
当主角踏上孤独却又不乏动人情感的旅途时，我们得以看到这部真诚、美丽又充满诗意的杰作。视听、剧本和表演都是顶级，赵婷又一次超出了我的期待。
勉强两分。看睡着了。本片的女性表达，在深度和形式上，相比同样得了金狮的《天涯沦落女》或是只拿到提名的《奥兰多》都是种倒退（这些片子都含有依托时空转换揭晓女性禀赋与环境对冲的动机）。这电影基本是科恩嫂一直游荡各地打短工、跟朋友闲聊、保持自身独立这些内容的循环，它没有主线，也谈不上有什么剧情，台词大部分都是片汤话，角色状态没起伏，色调清冷压抑，科恩嫂跟老头讲自己活在回忆里算是直接点题了，但这老头是谁？科恩嫂为什么对他说这些？明明全片去戏剧化，又用这种生硬的方式点题，显得编导能力的可笑了。本片也有些许编制&解构又一部依托公路的美国神话的成分，比如电影里出现了多次关于各种石头的设计，表示女主角因经济问题不得不上路的同时，还有石头所代表的永恒价值，这主题并不稀奇，况且科恩嫂的表演方式容易让人感到她偏执
当主角踏上孤独却又不乏动人情感的旅途时，我们得以看到这部真诚、美丽又充满诗意的杰作。视听、剧本和表演都是顶级，赵婷又一次超出了我的期待。
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