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  • 2017
  • Film Movement
  • 1 h 38 m
  • 2017
  • Film Movement
  • 1 h 38 m

Summary Polish director Andrzej Wajda returns with this passionate biopic about avant-garde artist Wladyslaw Strzeminski (Boguslaw Linda), who battled Stalinist orthodoxy and his own physical impairments to advance his progressive ideas about art. [Film Movement]

Directed By: Andrzej Wajda

Written By: Andrzej Mularczyk, Andrzej Wajda

  • 2017
  • Film Movement
  • 1 h 38 m
  • 2017
  • Film Movement
  • 1 h 38 m

Afterimage

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 14 Critic Reviews
75
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 10 User Ratings
6.4
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Summary Polish director Andrzej Wajda returns with this passionate biopic about avant-garde artist Wladyslaw Strzeminski (Boguslaw Linda), who battled Stalinist orthodoxy and his own physical impairments to advance his progressive ideas about art. [Film Movement]

Directed By: Andrzej Wajda

Written By: Andrzej Mularczyk, Andrzej Wajda

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 14 Critic Reviews
75
79% Positive
11 Reviews
21% Mixed
3 Reviews
0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 14 Critic Reviews
75
79% Positive
11 Reviews
21% Mixed
3 Reviews
0% Negative
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100
May 27, 2017
The irony of Afterimage is that it champions an avant-garde artist, warts and all, and yet Wajda’s stylistics here are conventional and understated.
By Peter Rainer FULL REVIEW
90
May 18, 2017
This is an angry, vivid, passionate film.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW
80
May 15, 2017
The film still stands as an imposing monument to the memory of a great artist.
By Dan Fainaru FULL REVIEW
75
May 15, 2017
For a filmmaker who was frequently drawn back to the subject of suffering, and especially the anguish of the individual cast against the collective will of cruel, foolish authority, it’s a perfectly fitting farewell.
By John Semley FULL REVIEW
70
May 18, 2017
Though Wajda admires this struggle, the artist’s final pursuit never seems redemptive in the depths of Strzemiński’s isolation and misery.
By Chris Packham FULL REVIEW
60
May 15, 2017
While this grim story is one worth telling, it’s a pity that in relating the bum’s-rush Strzeminski got in later life, Wadja couldn’t have communicated more of what sustains his legacy as a great artist and innovator.
By Dennis Harvey FULL REVIEW
58
May 16, 2017
Afterimage suffers from a clunky script and an overdetermined formal palette.
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 10 User Ratings
6.4
60% Positive
6 Ratings
30% Mixed
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10% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 10 User Ratings
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30% Mixed
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10% Negative
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Production Company Akson Studio, EC1 Lódz - Miasto Kultury, NINA, Narodowy Instytut Audiowizualny, PISF, Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej, Telewizja Polska (TVP), Tumult Foundation
Release Date May 19, 2017
Duration 1 h 38 m
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Website http://www.aksonstudio.pl/pl/filmy/powidoki
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Awards

Polish Film Awards
• 8 Nominations
Polish Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Camerimage
• 1 Nomination

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