Jacek Gasiorowski Movies
- 1992
Just as some women are like catnip for men, attracting them far and wide, in this story a harried young man is in a similar situation with regard to women. Marek (Zbigniew Zamachowski) meets his first girlfriend while studying in Paris at the Sorbonne, and their frenzied affair makes such incredible demands on him, physically, that by the time he returns to Poland he is almost (but not quite) ready to be hospitalized. Instead, he allows himself to be wooed by another woman. This time, he does wind up in the hospital, where he meets and has an affair with a nurse. When she becomes pregnant, he takes his parental responsibilities seriously. Complications surface at his job in a TV station when one of the girls there takes a shine to him. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
- Starring:
- Zbigniew Zamachowski, Maria Gladkowska, (more)
- 1985
In this low-budget thriller from director Jacek Gasiorowski, a young son slowly becomes aware of a sleazy underworld inhabited by the oddballs and dangerous men that his father must deal with in order to collect the money he needs to pay off a drug debt. Denis (Hugues Quester is a designer who resorts to selling drugs to survive, but now his drug bosses give him the length of one day to come up with the money he owes them, or else. His son Pierrot (Pierre Champenois) goes along with him, as the two frantically move from one end of town to the other, trying to collect from a wide variety of people: a Vietnamese heroin addict, a dealer and musician, and others on the fringe. In the meantime, Denis' period of grace is quickly running out, and young Pierrot has received a crash-course on the lower rungs of humanity. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Starring:
- Hugues Quester, Anne Alvaro, (more)
In 1982, legendary Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda fled his homeland and relocated in France to direct this powerful story about the ethical boundaries of power and leadership, which had many parallels to Poland's volatile political situation in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Danton (Gérard Depardieu) and Robespierre (Wojciech Pszoniak) were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 Robespierre was France's ruler, determined to wipe out opposition with a series of mass executions that became known as the Reign of Terror. Danton, well known as a spokesman of the people, had been living in relative solitude in the French countryside, but he returned to Paris to challenge Robespierre's violent rule and call for the people to demand their rights. Robespierre, however, could not accept such a challenge, even from a friend and colleague, and he blocked out a plan for the capture and execution of Danton and his allies. Wajda remained in France until 1989, when the collapse of Communist rule made it possible for him to return to his homeland. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Starring:
- Gérard Depardieu, Wojciech Pszoniak, (more)
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