ESCAPE FROM THE LIBERTY CINEMA
A film review by Alan Jay
Copyright 1991 Alan Jay
Director: Wojciech Marczewski Leading Players: Janusz Gajos, Zbigniew Zamachowski Poland 1990 Shown at the 35th London Film Festival.
Capsule: This film is about a censor and a film where the actors decide to take their life into their own hands. (+0.5)
ESCAPE FROM THE LIBERTY CINEMA centres around a provincial Polish censor and the problems that happen when the actors in a film playing in the "Liberty" Cinema decide they can't take it any more and go on strike. The film plays homage to Woody Allen's PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO and even includes an excerpt from it.
The film is an odd mix a comedy about a serious subject that varies from being truly hilarious to very serious. This means that the film is, in my opinion, not quite walking the tightrope perfectly but making a good attempt.
The film includes some scenes from THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO which Woody Allen arranged to have provided royalty free after seeing the script. This segment where the senior Party officials are called in to sort out the problem is one of the best in the film as it shows how farcical the whole thing has become.
I'm not sure that I would recommend this film to my friends but it makes its points sufficiently well that I do not feel that I wasted my time seeing it.
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