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."
万合天宜，希望能好，最起码要好笑。
悬疑和喜剧不易混搭，目前国内也仅唐探系列在此领域颇有所成，没想到刘循子墨处女作便交出不错的答卷。前面喜剧后面悬疑融合得不错，迷影元素不少，反嘲娱乐圈社交、影视圈创作，以及吐槽审查和署名，虽是创作者夹带私货，但并不枯燥。剧本杀风格迎合年轻人，然不失为行之有效的观影驱动力。选角和表演方式也指向更下沉的受众群体，营销跟上来就会小爆。
他们去看《圆月映花都》，在屋顶聊到它，巴黎的柔和夜色，生活中不经意的一瞥、一次相遇，导演将温柔贯彻到底了。
倦怠的人类经过白日的毒害，万籁俱寂的深夜听着温吞嗓音垂眸落矣，思绪消散内心平静，如温牛奶进口顺滑微甜。
愿意给个好分数是因为看见太多人觉得没拍好，但在我眼里，这样的题材和这样的深意，能过审也许就已经是很努力了。
真的是一部极其温柔的电影，那些巴黎的清晨、夜晚和日出真的好美
我看来是标准的三星半电影，这个电影优点是剧本做的完整细致，缺点肉眼可见的穷；镜头语言太单薄了；导演功底实在不行，演员也太一般了。 前面有些废话，例如发现齐乐山是凶手也太磨叽了，李达爬通风管道的镜头太长了可以改进。 为了反转的惊艳齐乐山前期应该亦正亦邪，中期应该更凶恶让人感觉他就是真正的杀人犯。但是电影一上来就感觉齐乐山是好人有隐情，看到最后也只能给人一种果然不出所料的感觉。如果这个角色换成孙红雷在全民目击里那个感觉就比较对，但是齐乐山是全剧戏眼，现在差意思了，所以电影也差意思了。当然主要是导演的锅，在搞笑上花了很多没必要的废笔（比如跳舞那段整个没必要）。梗很多，但是很多是没必要加的梗，看到了《闪灵》《无间道》等众多经典镜头/台词，甚至还有爸，我回来了？ 很多演员表演痕迹挺重的，实在出戏。
巴黎、夜晚、城市、旅人，所有元素都完美契合我的口味，有这样温柔的电影陪伴，仿佛第二天连早起都有勇气了。感谢导演。
女主韵味十足，故事胜在简单，以及那句老话，法国人的生活离不开爱情。
看这种电影的时候就会在想，电影的形式真多啊，以电影为自己输出的视角，表达出来出内核，可以看出这个是一个温暖治愈不幼稚也不世俗的内心。生活发生了变动，但是不戏剧化，就像你我现实中的过程。人生真是一段又一段的陪伴组成不是吗，看到最后的新感悟，不管角色是女儿，母亲，妻子，情人，这些标签都是他人生活中对你的定义，但却不是你的。你永远只是你。所以你的生活中也拥有父亲，孩子，同事。人来人往，享受的是一起的时光，不去想它是否长久。生命的本意就是如此。
只是确实执行力不行。剪辑乱且碎，影响质感为0。另外，希望现在的国产片都能对自己有点数，没事不要动不动就超过2小时的时长。要懂得取舍。
会有别人眼中的我们，那些碎片，我们曾经以为瞥见的，我们的碎片，会由我们的梦来滋养，我们从来都不是相同的，每一次，我们都只是外来者，是夜旅人，是他们的想象，就像被留在旧房间镜子上的，那些脆弱的阴影。
好舒服的片子，即使生活中再有残破不堪也能相互温柔走过，不得不说改革的大背景也起到了很大作用。
接触剧本杀相对少一些，可以视作封闭空间社会派推理作品，看故事结构和人物关系，确实对剧本杀环节有所借鉴，尤其第一幕，但玩法较之游戏相对简化，有悬念无阵营，还原隐情为主，群像刻画的重点并不围绕推凶，而是以更接近跑团的方式在发展，值得认可的尝试，在主题表达层面小有野心
滥用来自第四墙的画外音打破故事沉浸。
“导演，咱这部电影观众能看懂吗？”“不一定，但我觉得这片子一定能留下来，因为我们做到了一件正确的事——问心无愧。”
尤其是三分之二的戏份里角色的站位和走位都很话剧，神态和表演也很流于表面，肢体动作多而夸张，哪哪儿都很话剧，哪哪儿都不电影。没有影像质感。
“会有别人眼中的我们
太喜欢最后念的那一段听众的信了，最后的几分钟让我一下就喜欢这部了
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