Las Meninas (film)

[2] …Podolchak's film, alongside Majewski's and Bartas's work, appears to be a perfect example for a cinematic or post-cinematic "dream of a gesture" (Agamben 1993, 139) transporting the viewer into a visibly subjective and surreal universe of enigmatic pictures….They live in the suburbs, in a strange villa that appears, through a complex game of mirrors, to be more like a piece of installation art than a real house.Thus the existence of the terrorized family turns into an endless ritual of attempting to satisfy his whims, and always on the alert for yet another one of his "health crises".The idea for the script appeared in 2004, inspired by Doctor Janos Sanocky's account of a case from his medical practice.During 2008–2011, the film participated in competition programs of the international film festivals in Brazil,[7] Croatia,[8] Russia, Poland,[9] Slovakia,[10] Spain, Romania, Italy, and Hungary;[11] in non-competition programs in Germany,[12] South Korea,[13] France,[14] Australia, Greece,[15] UK,[16] Colombia,[17] Estonia,[18] USA,[19] Sweden, and South Africa.The critical opinions were polarized – from aversion and accusations of being "artificial" to apologetics and high appreciation of the film's art quality[26][27][28] and its break with the tradition of the so-called "Ukrainian Soviet cinema".Київ: Видавництво «Мысль», 2008 ISBN 978-966-8527-62-3 · Offenbarungen über den Gott ... Lodz: Correspondance des Arts II, 1993, OCLC 498467121 · Gilgamesh.