Screened at the Le Familial cinema in Saint-Lunaire (Ille-et-Vilaine), Tuesday November 12, 2024, the film Blue Flowers is the latest feature film from filmmaker Andrzej Wajda, co-written by Andrzej Mularczyk. Filmed in 2017, with Boguslaw Linda, Aleksandra Justa and Bronislawa Zamachowska in the lead roles, the original title is Afterimages. It is a poignant testament film, which tells the tragic life of Polish painter Wladyslaw Strzeminski, pioneer of the constructivist avant-garde of the 1920s-1930s.
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Despite the support of his students, Wladyslaw Strzeminski was harassed by the Soviet power, expelled from the university and removed from the artists’ union. He died in poverty in 1952, before the political thaw that followed Stalin’s death.
Freedom, main theme of Wajda’s films
Mireille Kentzinger, president of the Montreurs d’ombres association and behind the program, explains her choice: Apart from its political testimony, the film presents great cinematographic qualities with visual discoveries to make us understand how Stalinist power imposes itself everywhere, including in private life. Andrzej Wajda’s favorite theme has always been freedom. All his life he defied the authorities of his country without ever being tempted to move to the west, as many others did, because he was a fervent worshiper of Poland. The film testifies to the conflict between artistic freedom and political repression that the director himself experienced.
Tuesday November 12, 2024, at 8 p.m., at the Le Familial cinema in Saint-Lunaire. Discussions after the screening. Prices: €6, €4 for members. Contact: [email protected]
