An opulently strange and hallucinatory masterpiece that filters Bruno Schulz’s elusive and elliptical novella (with other Schulz stories stirred into the mix) through Has’s own familiar obsessions. Like most Has protagonists, Józef (Jan Nowicki) is trying to access the past, in this case by visiting his father (Marek Kondrat) in a sanatorium that turns out to be a portal to a world based as much on Józef’s fears and long-suppressed memories as it is on objective reality. Stylistically, the film recalls Orson Welles at his most florid, with Jerzy Maksymiuk’s atonal score brilliantly integrated into the overall texture.
Please note, tickets will go on sale to the public at https://www.bfi.org.uk/ on the 13 March 2025 (BFI champion members from 10 March & BFI members from 11 March)
