I Love the Cinema
Piotr Łazarkiewicz’s debut is not a happy tale, yet there is no mistaking that the joy he felt for the art of film and the pleasures of the cinema-going experience were at the heart of his inspiration for the film. We follow the struggle of a small town’s inhabitants to keep their local movie house from closing down. The film is richly textured, from Krzysztof Pakulski’s vivid cinematography, through Zbigniew Preisner’s stirring score, to the nearly palpable love of all that is cinema flowing from the screen. We may all have said I Love the Cinema at some point or another, but Łazarkiewicz gives the phrase deeper meaning in a film where a small-town movie theater becomes the backdrop for life, death, love and social struggle. Bring tissues.
awards
Torino International Festival of Young Cinema 1988 – Special Mention
Piotr Łazarkiewicz
Piotr Łazarkiewicz was born in Cieplice Śląskie, in 1954. He graduated in Polish language studies from the University of Wrocław (1977) and in film and television direction from the University of Silesia in Katowice (1981). He called his debut I Love Cinema, testifying to the passion that had fired him since childhood. Łazarkiewicz worked in feature film, documentary, television reporting, theater, and opera. He passed away suddenly, following a heart attack, on 20 June 2008, in Warsaw. The 8th New Horizons featured a retrospective of his works. He was the author of the concept for review of films from The Karol Irzykowski Film Studio.
Selected filmography
1986 Fala (doc.)
1987 Kocham kino / I Love Cinema
1990 W środku Europy / In the Middle of Europe
1991 Odjazd / Departure
1993 Pora na czarownice / A Time for Witches
2004 Skała / Rock (doc.)
2008 0_1_0