In 1961, Stanislaw Rozewicz created the novella film "Birth Certificate" in cooperation with his brother, Taduesz Rozewicz as screenwriter. Such brother tandems are rare in the history of film but aside from family ties, Stanislaw (born in 1924) and Taduesz (born in 1921) were mutually bound by their love for the cinema. They were born and grew up in Radomsk, a small town which had "its madmen and its saints" and most importanly, the "Kinema" cinema, as Stanislaw recalls: for him cinema is "heaven, the whole world, enchantment". Tadeusz says he considers cinema both a charming market stall and a mysterious temple. "All this savage land has always attracted and fascinated me," he says. "I am devoured by cinema and I devour cinema; I'm a cinema eater." But Taduesz Rozewicz, an eminent writer, admits this unique form of cooperation was a problem to him: "It is the presence of the other person not only in the process of writing, but at its very core, which is inserperable for me from absolute solitude." Some scenes the brothers wrote together; others were created by the writer himself, following discussions with the director. But from the perspective of time, it is "Birth Certificate", rather than "Echo" or "The Wicked Gate", that Taduesz describes as his most intimate film. This is understandable. The tradgey from September 1939 in Poland was for the Rozewicz brothers their personal "birth certificate". When working on the film, the director said "This time it is all about shaking off, getting rid of the psychological burden which the war was for all of us. ... Cooperation with my brother was in this case easier, as we share many war memories. We wanted to show to adult viewers a picture of war as seen by a child. ... In reality, it is the adults who created the real world of massacres. Children beheld the horrors coming back to life, exhumed from underneath the ground, overwhelming the earth."
The principle of composition of "Birth Certificate" is not obvious. When watching a novella film, we tend to think in terms of traditional theatre. We expect that a miniature story will finish with a sharp point; the three film novellas in Rozewicz's work lack this feature. We do not know what will be happen to the boy making his alone through the forest towards the end of "On the Road". We do not know whether in "Letter from the Camp", the help offered by the small heroes to a Soviet prisoner will rescue him from the unknown fate of his compatriots. The fate of the Jewish girl from "Drop of Blood" is also unclear. Will she keep her new impersonation as "Marysia Malinowska"? Or will the Nazis make her into a representative of the "Nordic race"? Those questions were asked by the director for a reason. He preceived war as chaos and perdition, and not as linear history that could be reflected in a plot. Although "Birth Certificate" is saturated with moral content, it does not aim to be a morality play. But with the immense pressure of reality, no varient of fate should be excluded. This approached can be compared wth Krzysztof Kieslowski's "Blind Chance" 25 years later, which pictured dramatic choices of a different era.
The film novella "On the Road" has a very sparing plot, but it drew special attention of the reviewers. The ominating overtone of the war films created by the Polish Film School at that time should be kept in mind. Mainly owing to Wajda, those films dealt with romantic heritage. They were permeated with pathos, bitterness, and irony. Rozewicz is an extraordinary artist. When narrating a story about a boy lost in a war zone, carrying some documents from the regiment office as if they were a treasure, the narrator in "On the Road" discovers rough prose where one should find poetry. And suddenly, the irrational touches this rather tame world. The boy, who until that moment resembled a Polish version of the Good Soldier Schweik, sets off, like Don Quixote, for his first and last battle. A critic described it as "an absurd gesture and someone else could surely use it to criticise the Polish style of dying. ... But the Rozewicz brothers do no accuse: they only compose an elegy for the picturesque peasant-soldier, probably the most important veteran of the Polish war of 1939-1945." "Birth Certificate" is not a lofty statement about national imponderabilia. The film reveals a plebeian perspective which Aleksander Jackieqicz once contrasted with those "lyrical lamentations" inherent in the Kordian tradition. However, a historical overview of Rozewicz's work shows that the distinctive style does not signify a fundamental difference in illustrating the Polish September. Just as the memorable scene from Wajda's "Lotna" was in fact an expression of desperation and distress, the same emotions permeate the final scene of "Birth Certificate". These are not ideological concepts, though once described as such and fervently debated, but rather psychological creations. In this specific case, observes Witold Zalewski, it is not about manifesting knightly pride, but about a gesture of a simple man who does not agree to be enslaved.
The novella "Drop of Blood" is, with Aleksander Ford's "Border Street", one of the first narrations of the fate of the Polish Jews during the Nazi occupation. The story about a girl literally looking for her place on earth has a dramatic dimension. Especially in the age of today's journalistic disputes, often manipulative, lacking in empathy and imbued with bad will, Rozewicz's story from the past shocks with its authenticity. The small herione of the story is the only one who survives a German raid on her family home. Physical survial does not, however, mean a return to normality. Her frightened departure from the rubbish dump that was her hideout lead her to a ruined apartment. Her walk around it is painful because still fresh signs of life are mixed with evidence of annihilation. Help is needed, but Mirka does not know anyone in the outside world. Her subsequent attempts express the state of the fugitive's spirits - from hope and faith, moving to doubt, a sense of oppression, and thickening fear, and finally to despair.
At the same time, the Jewish girl's search for refuge resembles the state of Polish society. The appearance of Mirka results in confusion, and later, trouble. This was already signalled by Rozewicz in an exceptional scene from "Letter from the Camp" in which the boy's neighbour, seeing a fugitive Russian soldier, retreats immediately, admitting that "Now, people worry only about themselves." Such embarassing excuses mask fear. During the occupation, no one feels safe. Neither social status not the aegis of a charity organisation protects against repression. We see the potential guardians of Mirka passing her back and forth among themselves. These are friendly hands but they cannot offer strong support. The story takes place on that thin line between solidarity and heroism. Solidarity arises spontaneously, but only some are capable of heroism. Help for the girl does not always result from compassion; sometimes it is based on past relations and personal ties (a neighbour of the doctor takes in the fugitive for a few days because of past friendship). Rozewicz portrays all of this in a subtle way; even the smallest gesture has significance. Take, for example, the conversation with a stranger on the train: short, as if jotted down on the margin, but so full of tension. And earlier, a peculiar examination of Polishness: the "Holy Father" prayer forced on Mirka by the village boys to check that she is not a Jew. Would not rising to the challenge mean a death sentance?
Viewed after many years, "Birth Certificate" discloses yet another quality that is not present in the works of the Polish School, but is prominent in later B-class war films. This is the picture of everyday life during the war and occupation outlined in the three novellas. It harmonises with the logic of speaking about "life after life". Small heroes of Rozewicz suddenly enter the reality of war, with no experience or scale with which to compare it. For them, the present is a natural extension of and at the same time a complete negation of the past. Consider the sleey small-town marketplace, through which armoured columns will shortly pass. Or meet the German motorcyclists, who look like aliens from outer space - a picture taken from an autopsy because this is how Stanislaw and Taduesz perceived the first Germans they ever met. Note the blurred silhouettes of people against a white wall who are being shot - at first they are shocking, but soon they will probably become a part of the grim landscape. In the city centre stands a prisoner camp on a sodden bog ("People perish likes flies; the bodies are transported during the night"); in the street the childern are running after a coal wagon to collect some precious pieces of fuel. There's a bustle around some food (a boy reproaches his younger brother's actions by singing: "The warrant officer's son is begging in front of the church? I'm going to tell mother!"); and the kitchen, which one evening becomes the proscenium of a real drama. And there are the symbols: a bar of chocolate forced upon a boy by a Wehrmacht soldier ("On the Road"); a pair of shoes belonging to Zbyszek's father which the boy spontaneously gives to a Russian fugitive; a priceless slice of bread, ground under the heel of a policeman in the guter ("Letters from the Camp"). As the director put it: "In every film, I communicate my own vision of the world and of the people. Only then the style follows, the defined way of experiencing things." In Birth Certificate, he adds, his approach was driven by the subject: "I attempted to create not only the texture of the document but also to add some poetic element. I know it is risky but as for the merger of documentation and poety, often hidden very deep, if only it manages to make its way onto the screen, it results in what can referred to as 'art'."
After 1945, there were numerous films created in Europe that dealt with war and children, including "Somewhere in Europe" ("Valahol Europaban", 1947 by Geza Radvanyi), "Shoeshine" ("Sciescia", 1946 by Vittorio de Sica), and "Childhood of Ivan" ("Iwanowo dietstwo" by Andriej Tarkowski). Yet there were fewer than one would expect. Pursuing a subject so imbued with sentimentalism requires stylistic disipline and a special ability to manage child actors. The author of "Birth Certificate" mastered both - and it was not by chance. Stanislaw Rozewicz was always the beneficent spirit of the film milieu; he could unite people around a common goal. He emanated peace and sensitivity, which flowed to his co-workers and pupils. A film, being a group work, necessitates some form of empathy - tuning in with others.
In a biographical documentary about Stanislaw Rozewicz entitled "Walking, Meeting" (1999 by Antoni Krauze), there is a beautiful scene when the director, after a few decades, meets Beata Barszczewska, who plays Mireczka in the novella "Drops of Blood". The woman falls into the arms of the elderly man. They are both moved. He wonders how many years have passed. She answers: "A few years. Not too many." And Rozewicz, with his characteristic smile says: "It is true. We spent this entire time together."
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在奥斯卡颁奖之前看完，但我有强烈预感这个电影一定会获奖！理由如下： 1.女导演兼处女作 也许这类型电影看多了，在我还未知道它是处女作品情况下，就已经能深刻感到电影镜头语言细节处理不够成熟的熟悉感（在其他处女座也存在这种问题！） 另外，值得一提的是女导演，从2016年来，我就有幸看了不少新生代女导演的佳作，实在令人感到开心，希望我能看到更多越来越好的女导演和她们的作品。 2.颠覆传统！ 电影主角是一个为了追求自己学术的从而抛下自己年幼的女儿们的母亲，这在以前的电影里，这的确很少见，看多了男性为了事业忽略家庭的故事，这个看起来不那么“尊重”传统母性道德的故事出现在电影里就显得极为可贵！ 电影以一种看似漠然而又尖锐地指出了传统社会对母亲这一角色的道德绑架——母亲再也不是那个永远被家庭束缚的人了。
台灣第一部stereo，台灣影史原聲帶前五，期待太高反而覺得還好，空鏡頭使用感覺是受侯導影響，但又覺得切鏡跟調度有些單調，所謂更「寫實」只是比較沒那麼類型，相較之下十年後的美麗時光確實更加細膩且出色。
“雨一直下，像我的悲哀” 蛋堡的歌词里面也有这句吗！
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“雨一直下，就像我的悲哀。”电影的最后一幕，才让我回想起，这不过是十几岁的少年。在暴力、枪械、毒品的影响下，用冲动、放纵、肆意挥霍而逃避痛苦的少年。他们并不能够理解痛苦，所以也无法做到真正的自我疗愈。
7 女导演拍摄角度和情感呈现方式 更加细腻而尖锐 科尔曼演技在 整个人敏感而挣扎的情绪 从各种细节表现出来 不懂最后才还给达妹娃娃
为玛吉.吉伦哈尔点一个大大的赞！拍得太好了，完全看不出新手的样子。虽然是一个跟当年的“自己”相遇这样不怎么新鲜的框架，但依然可以借着一个略带悬疑的主线故事被讲述得细腻至极。奥利维亚.科尔曼值得另一个奥斯卡提名，全片的大近景完全没有妨碍她的表现，反而更让人看到她在细微表情处理上的高超。
想要传达出来的女性之苦、身为母亲的苦楚以及女性选择个人而非家庭的好处是有感受到的，但也因为这种略俗套的处理方式而弱化了，尤其是结尾与达妹的对话和试图展现出来的和解，则是进一步地将这种表达和力量弱化。
（6.6/10）当《德州巴黎》中那位抛妻弃子的父亲离开后，他感受到了自由。在《暗处的女儿》中，女主角同样离开了她的家庭，而她的感受却更复杂：有自由，有实现自我价值的满足和成就感，当然也有因社会对女性“完美母亲”形象的追求而造成的自责和悔恨。还有一点很有趣：抚养孩子的过程是家长在教育孩子，而反过来孩子也可以在某种程度上重塑家长。
放硬盘里一年了才看，黑帮片+分，悲剧+分，颜正国+分。
我私心的喜欢，其实一大部分喜欢还是来自埃莱娜的原著，虽然还没看到，但是一眼就能确定是她会关注到的会写作的风格。我也蛮没想到The lost daughter这个名字，其实讲的是母职惩罚的故事。除了科尔曼，尤其喜欢演young Leda的Jessie，她可真漂亮，达妹的角色外表看起来就已经产后抑郁很严重的样子了。
不错的片，带有显著的情绪，聚焦女性的生育困境、家庭责任以及精神创伤，全片女主视角，虽是海边度假，危险不安却一直围绕，有点儿惊悚片的味。手持摄影及大特写，人物情态刻画细腻，颇为流畅。结尾（可能是有所暗示另一走向的结局）的调子再灰暗一点，兴许会更犀利。Colman 还有 Buckley 的演技上乘。
为什么三十年前的事情还是要重复在十多年前的我们身上
C-. 简单的故事，幽微的情感，却完成得捉襟见肘而一地鸡毛。科尔曼游荡，科尔曼崩溃，科尔曼回忆，再用看似压迫实际毫无情感意义的特写镜头串起来，就成了本片。希望导演们能明白，表达微妙复杂的情绪，不是要全程怼着脸才能拍的。
费兰特同名小说改编，主题依然是女性困境，悬疑戏份过于抢眼反而影响了主题的传达（很怕女主被那一家人暴揍），总体看下来一般般，应该小说会更细腻和透彻一些，期待看到小说的中文出版。
最好的是配乐，意象隐喻的手法有点太多导致很多隐喻我都没有太理解（可能单纯是因为我白痴…）
台湾所经历的正是大陆在经历的，侯孝贤、杨德昌他们在80-90年代将台湾社会各阶层在经济浪潮冲击下的时代症候刻画在自己的电影中，让那一代人可以用以缅怀曾经历的磨难和悲壮，这也许就是电影的意义。
挺透彻的恐育片。费兰特元素频出（娃娃、海滨度假修罗场、混乱的家庭、两组关系的映射等等），那种内心戏特别足的费兰特调调也被Maggie把握得很好，Colman令人心碎的表演无可挑剔，别的就没太多可说的了。可能是需要考虑下各种设计在“到位”之余如何更加“有效”。
上周五看《从零开始的女性主义》提到托儿所不是所有婴儿都能入托，周六下午去一个残障女性职业展去听重症肌无力女性的生育，晚上去看《暗处的女儿》。不同的女性，相同的生育。但这么多活动下来还是想说，求求你们，别生了，没有生育，就没有伤害。
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