Tatarak

I am a great fan of Andrzej Wajda ever since I screened Knife in the Water for my film society members and have repeatedly viewed it. He is master in opening up his film in a slow pensive way so that when it ends, it hits you hard. Sweet Rush of course starts in room in solitude lighted by a window in a Edward Hopper fashion. The scenes swing between under lighted home and clinic of the doctor husband to the brightly, quietly, peacefully pastoral countryside where the tragedy ends the serenity of Riverside. Story swings from Death to Life and back again. Suddenly at the river, you see the sequence which once looked to be part of the story being filmed. I am not sure about the concept of film within film tried here. In real life Wajda's cinematographer Edward Klosinski was Krystyna's real husband as in the film. Krystyna Janda as Marta is superb.