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A meandering intimate tale that moves and feels like a pastoral idyll, MAIDS OF WILKO is miles from the hard blistering agitprop of MAN OF MARBLE, and looks to be far from Wajda’s War Trilogy as well. Yet beneath the country estate, there is an emptiness, a discontent, a gloomy melancholy.
Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda's 1979 film Maids Of Wilko (Panny Z Wilka- also translated as Young Girls Of Wilko) shows that, like such filmmakers as Ingmar Bergman, Robert Bresson, and Yasujiro Ozu, he is an artist more interested in endurances than mere 'scenes.' His characters speak as if philosophers, but in a naturalistic style.
Panny z Wilka / The maids of Wilko [Blu-Ray] [Region Free] (English subtitles) Format: Blu-ray. $42.90 $ 42. 90. DVD $32.00
Set in the late '20s. A thirtyish young man, who heads a small factory, faints at the funeral of a close friend. He decides to go home to his aunt and uncle for a while, but gets involved with a family of five women who had been in love with him at one time though he had apparently loved only one, who, unknown to him, has died since his departure. The women are mainly disillusioned with life ...
A meandering intimate tale that moves and feels like a pastoral idyll, MAIDS OF WILKO is miles from the hard blistering agitprop of MAN OF MARBLE, and looks to be far from Wajda’s War Trilogy as well. Yet beneath the country estate, there is an emptiness, a discontent, a gloomy melancholy.
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The Maids of Wilko is a 1979 film directed by Andrzej Wajda and starring Daniel Olbrychski, Anna Seniuk, and Maja Komorowska. Set in the Polish countryside in the 1920s, the film tells the story of a man named Wiktor (Olbrychski) who returns to his ancestral home after spending many years in Paris.
