The Culture Commission of the Jagiellonian University’s PhD Student Association invites you to choose the film we will watch during the next edition of the Doctoral Students’ Film Club, which will take place on Thursday May 18th.
You can vote up through Sunday May 7th using the following link:
This time, you can vote for the following films. All their descriptions come from their distributors.
Perfect Number, Poland/Italy/Israel, 2022, dir. Krzysztof Zanussi, in Polish with English subtitles
Joachim (Andrzej Seweryn) is a mature man who no longer needs to prove anything to anyone. He is wealthy, and his life is one long string of successes. The whims of fate introduce him to thirty-year-old David (Jan Marczewski), a mathematical genius who has abandoned a promising business career abroad and is looking for a channel to make use of his own talents in Poland.
Things become complicated when Ola (Julia Latosińska) enters David’s life. Joachim and David are two men at completely different stages of life. Can they each learn from one another? How can one choose between intellect, faith, and love?
In Perfect Number, Krzysztof Zanussi returns to the most important topics in his work and presents them in the unexpected form of an intellectual thriller.
Krzysztof Zanussi says of his film:
“Perfect Number is a film about mathematics and God. It is the story of a man who rejects wealth for the sake of passion, which turns out to be more valuable. It is also about emptiness in life and the fullness of life; about egotism and the joy of sharing with others. In this film, I return to my first films, The Structure of Crystals and The Illumination, which present the relationship between science, life, and faith.”
The True Life of Angels, Poland 2019, dir. Artur "Baron" Więcek, in Polish with English subtitles
The True Life of Angels is a drama inspired by the life of Krzysztof Globisz, one of the most acclaimed Polish actors, who in 2014 suffered a major stroke. Today, he is recovering, in front of the camera and on stage. His personal participation in this film is a unique and exceptional event: for probably the first time in film history, an actor who was the victim of a stroke and suffers from aphasia and paralysis is playing the leading role.
Kinga Preis and Jerzy Trela co-star in The True Life of Angels, while Anna Dymna plays a supporting role. Adam (Krzysztof Globisz), a well-known actor, experiences a sudden, massive stroke. His health fails, and he loses the basic tool of his work: his speech. Despite the seemingly hopeless diagnosis, Adam’s wife Agnieszka (Kinga Preis) stubbornly and perseveringly struggles for his return to health and onto the stage. Will Adam’s family and friends motivate him to take on the challenge and escape from the land between dreams and waking reality where he ended up during his illness? Will Adam recover from aphasia and return to his life prior to the stroke when he was an acclaimed actor and teacher loved by his students? What is most important in his life?
The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan, France 2022, dir. Martin Bourboulon, in French with Polish subtitles
This is an epic adaptation of one of the most famous adventure novels in the history of literature.
A huge budget, a star-studded cast, faithfulness to the literary source material, and state-of-the-art filmmaking: these are the defining features of the latest adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ famous book.
Eva Green as Milday is as strong a performance as her role in Casino Royale, while Vicky Krieps is admired for her role in Corsage as a woman who impacted the course of history.
On the road to Paris, the young, valiant Gascon d’Artagnan defends a young woman. Defeated by masked assailants, he miraculously survives. Upon arrival in the capital, he decides to find the culprits and dispense justice. However, he does not suspect that he will thus find himself in the middle of an international intrigue threatening the security of France. Along with his new friends, the musketeers Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, he attempts to thwart the dangerous connivances of Cardinal Richelieu. However, it is love for the beautiful Constance Bonacieux that leads him to great danger. Constance is the confidante of the queen of France who becomes entangled in a dangerous game whose aim is to pull the country into a destructive war. D’Artagnan must fight for the security and honor of his beloved and her lady. In this way, he becomes a mortal enemy of Milady de Winter, who will not give an inch to implement her devious plot.